SIOS SANless clusters

SIOS SANless clusters High-availability Machine Learning monitoring

  • Home
  • Products
    • SIOS DataKeeper for Windows
    • SIOS Protection Suite for Linux
  • News and Events
  • Clustering Simplified
  • Success Stories
  • Contact Us
  • English
  • 中文 (中国)
  • 中文 (台灣)
  • 한국어
  • Bahasa Indonesia
  • ไทย

Azure Auto Shutdown For Virtual Machines

Date: August 23, 2018
Tags: Azure, azure auto shutdown for virtual machines

Azure Auto Shutdown For Virtual Machines

I try to make my Azure MSDN subscription credits stretch the entire month. But with the Azure Auto Shutdown For Virtual Machines, my nerves can afford a little break. I’m typically just building labs to try out new features or to demonstrate SQL Server Failover Clusters in Azure. A lot of the time I am testing some pretty large instance sizes with plenty of premium storage. As you can imagine, you can burn through $150 pretty quick with a few GS5 instances running.

I try to be mindful and shutdown or destroy instances once I am done with them. Occasionally I’ll get pulled away for other business, only to log in the next day and see my credit has expired because I forgot to turn off the VMs.

I’m happy to see that it is now very easy to configure Azure Auto Shutdown For Virtual Machines.

Azure Auto Shutdown For Virtual Machines

Keep in mind however that this just shuts down the instance. If you have premium storage attached to it you will continue to pay for the Storage even if the instance is shut down.

Reproduced with permission from Clusteringformeremortals.com

Copyright © 2025 · Enterprise Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in