Hi Michael,   I just read through all three posts at once...very interesting and informative. Thank you so much for all the details.   If you can please help me with the use case below:   I'm working on a test deployment of Viya - SAS Visual Data Science on Azure and was wondering which specific instance and storage types/sizes I should select to test both (TWO and THREE Viya node pools) deployment topologies you mentioned to meet the MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS for a FUNCTIONAL VIYA DEPLOYMENT with which I can test some basic use cases. This is just for a pure functional testing and not to support any kind of workload. My goal is to keep the cost lowest possible, while having a successful and functional deployment to work with.   Thanks again,   Mahesh. ... View more