Azure Virtual Machines
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.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Azure Virtual Machines the way a machine reads it — 57 machine-readable artifacts across 10 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Azure Virtual Machines scores 64.4/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Azure Virtual Machines
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Azure Virtual Machines. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 10
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
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.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Azure Virtual Machines REST API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Spectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Azure Virtual Machines API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 37
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
ApiError
JSON SCHEMAApiErrorBase
JSON SCHEMAAttachDetachDataDisksRequest
JSON SCHEMACloudError
JSON SCHEMADataDisk
JSON SCHEMADiagnosticsProfile
JSON SCHEMAHardwareProfile
JSON SCHEMAImageReference
JSON SCHEMAInstanceViewStatus
JSON SCHEMALinuxConfiguration
JSON SCHEMALinuxPatchSettings
JSON SCHEMAManagedDiskParameters
JSON SCHEMANetworkInterfaceReference
JSON SCHEMANetworkProfile
JSON SCHEMAOSDisk
JSON SCHEMAOSProfile
JSON SCHEMAPlan
JSON SCHEMARetrieveBootDiagnosticsDataResult
JSON SCHEMARunCommandInput
JSON SCHEMARunCommandResult
JSON SCHEMAStorageProfile
JSON SCHEMASubResource
JSON SCHEMAVirtualMachine
JSON SCHEMAVirtualMachineAssessPatchesResult
JSON SCHEMAVirtualMachineCaptureParameters
JSON SCHEMAVirtualMachineCaptureResult
JSON SCHEMAVirtualMachineIdentity
JSON SCHEMAVirtualMachineInstallPatchesParameters
JSON SCHEMAVirtualMachineInstallPatchesResult
JSON SCHEMAVirtualMachineInstanceView
JSON SCHEMAVirtualMachineListResult
JSON SCHEMAVirtualMachineProperties
JSON SCHEMAVirtualMachineSize
JSON SCHEMAVirtualMachineSizeListResult
JSON SCHEMAVirtualMachineUpdate
JSON SCHEMAWindowsConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAWindowsPatchSettings
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 37 ·
JSON Structure 1
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines Structure
JSON STRUCTURESecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Azure Virtual Machines — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 2
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 8
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
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Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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