I shut down my 5 azure vms and i am still getting billed??? WTF IS THIS BULLSHIT. THIS DOESNT EXIST ON AWS. WHY IS BILL GATES SUCH A CHILD RAPER AND FUCKS CHILDREN IN THE EPSTEIN ISLAND

Infrastructure that exists is in use regardless of it running or not.

@tosensei To be fair, the TOS are usually designed as cost trap. That's how the cloud makes money.

Nothing teaches you cloud cost better than the bill.

@tosensei ok how am i supposed to preserve my settings and vms when i no longer need to use them and i created them just for a testing playground not a real project?

What if i work on this playground on work days and not use it on weekends? Why am i supposed to keep paying when i dont use it and it shut down during weeknd? Thsts bullshit

If you shut them down you also need to deallocate them. You still get billed for maybe public IPs and for storage.

This is the same on AWS. What are you talking about?

In general as long as you have any kind of resources (compute, storage, networking, IP, backups, services, whatever) allocated to you, you'll be billed for it. That's how...all of them work.

@tosensei @KDSBest @RememberMe @mansur85 how do i use vms on azure for testing during business days, and deallocate them during weekends completely so i dont get billed, since im not working on them during weekends, and then continue using them where i left off next monday?

@tosensei notice how you also cant answer the question because you also dont know. And if you do know and say its impossible then why are these cloud providers so glorified? Why should i pay just for testing minimum out of minimum, environment that im gonna delete in a few hours or days, not even a real world project? That sounds absurd and ridiculously unworkable. How do i learn if i have to pay to learn? Why can't i just test stuff for learning purposes

For example all im doing is learning ansible using linux commands, writing custom bash scripts and thats it. Ansible on control vm 1 manages other 4 node vms. All vms are hosted on azure. In the process of learning ansible i have to pay bill gates the child fucker my money. Fuck no

@b2plane You definitely can script those things. I think some years back I used some kind of "azure automation" (?), but don't quote me on that.

Storage can still be rather costly depending on type & size, but it shouldn't be much for some simple/small VMs.

BTW with some Microsoft subscriptions (Visual Studio Enterprise IIRC) you get free credit on Azure every month. With that you can run a few VMs 24/7 for free.

@b2plane Save the state (container and volumes etc if using docker) locally when you're done for the week and restore when you get back? These all appear on searches and have nothing to do with AWS or Azure.

Stop using a cloud provider. Start using local solution for learning, use vagrant.

@tosensei its my job to use azure in the 9-5 office i have no choice