# Azure Virtual Machines

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-azure-virtual-machines/  
**Website:** https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/virtual-machines  
**APIs profiled:** 10

Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) is one of several types of on-demand, scalable computing resources that Azure offers. VMs give you the flexibility of virtualization without having to buy and maintain physical hardware.

## Kin Score — 53.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 53.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 55.2 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 61.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (10)

- **Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets REST API** — REST API for creating and managing Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS). Enables deployment and management of groups of identical, load-balanced VMs that can automatically sc...
- **Azure Virtual Machine Extensions REST API** — REST API for managing Virtual Machine Extensions, which provide post-deployment configuration and automation tasks on Azure VMs. Extensions can install software, run scripts, co...
- **Azure Virtual Machine Images REST API** — REST API for listing and querying available virtual machine images in Azure, including platform images, marketplace images, and custom images. Provides operations for listing pu...
- **Azure Virtual Machine Sizes REST API** — REST API for listing available virtual machine sizes in a given Azure region. Returns the complete catalog of VM sizes with their resource specifications including number of vCP...
- **Azure Virtual Machine Run Commands REST API** — REST API for executing scripts and commands on Azure Virtual Machines without requiring direct network connectivity. Useful for troubleshooting, running diagnostics, and perform...
- **Azure Availability Sets REST API** — REST API for creating and managing Availability Sets, which are logical groupings of VMs that distribute them across fault domains and update domains to provide high availabilit...
- **Azure Proximity Placement Groups REST API** — REST API for creating and managing Proximity Placement Groups, which co-locate Azure resources within the same datacenter to achieve low network latency between virtual machines...
- **Azure Dedicated Hosts REST API** — REST API for creating and managing Azure Dedicated Hosts, which provide physical servers dedicated to a single Azure subscription. Dedicated hosts give visibility and control ov...
- **Azure Capacity Reservations REST API** — REST API for creating and managing Capacity Reservations, which allow you to reserve compute capacity in an Azure region or availability zone. Ensures that allocated capacity is...
- **Azure Virtual Machines Virtual Machines API** — Operations for creating, updating, deleting, and managing the lifecycle of Azure Virtual Machines including power operations, patching, and diagnostics.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Agentic Access** — 26 operations · 20 acting

## Security (2)

- **Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Cloud Computing, Compute, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Infrastructure, Virtual Machines

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-azure-virtual-machines/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.