Creating new instances is now free, for example, and the price per CPU and second went down from $0.0000125 to $0.000012. One gigabyte of memory now costs $0.000004 per second.

This new service -- Azure Container Instances (ACIs) -- is available in public preview for Linux containers as of today, July 26. Windows container support will be added "in the coming weeks ...

Posted: April 14, 2025 | Last updated: April 14, 2025 Learn how to set up Docker containers and automate CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for seamless deployment to Azure Container Instances.