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Turn VM off and give my money back

Rafal Pienkowski on February 25, 2019

Introduction In the previous episode, I get familiar with payment methods and cloud model which are available in Azure. Now I'm going to...
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Paweł Ruciński

One thing. Deallocate, not stop VM :)

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Rafal Pienkowski

You are technically right. The proper name is ”deallocate” not stop. In short words, you have to stop the VM via the portal, not but shutting it down via the O/S. In the Azure portal the option is named ”stop” that why I stocked to this convention.

For those interested in the subject here is the post which explains the difference.