# Create Compute Instance

A compute instance will provide the necessary computing resources for machine learning training and testing. While there is also an option to create a compute cluster, a low-end compute instance will be created in this tutorial.

1. Click "Settings" in top right of the "Designer"

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2. Select the compute type. There are several options available but select "Compute instance" for this experiment.

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3. Click "Compute instance"

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4. Click "Create Azure ML compute instance"

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5.  Enter Compute name as "mlcomputeinstance"

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6. Choose "Select from all options" to see more compute options. 

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7. Click on "Cost" to order all compute options by cost.

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8. Select a suitable compute instance.

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9. Click "Create".

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10 Select the created compute instance "STANDARD\_DS1\_V2" in the pipeline once the instance is ready.

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11. Continue with [Create an ML Pipeline](https://teaching.gitbook.io/ee5127/lab/azure-ml-studio/create-an-ml-pipeline).