Azure Pay As You Go Cloud Computing Made Easy

With Azure Pay As You Go, you only pay for the resources you use, which can help you save money on your cloud computing costs.

You can start small with a free trial and then scale up as your needs grow, without being locked into a long-term contract.

This flexibility is perfect for businesses that are still figuring out their cloud computing needs, or for projects that have variable resource requirements.

By the hour, you can pay for your Azure resources, which means you can adjust your spending to match your usage.

With Azure Pay As You Go, you only pay for the resources you use, and you can scale up or down as needed.

You can choose from a variety of pricing models, including per-minute pricing for virtual machines.

Pricing is calculated based on the number of minutes your virtual machine is running.

You can also take advantage of discounts for committing to a minimum amount of usage.

Azure Pay As You Go supports a wide range of services, including virtual machines, storage, and databases.

Pricing for each service varies, but you can find detailed information on the Azure website.

To get started with Azure Pay As You Go, you'll need to create an Azure account and set up a payment method.

You can then use the Azure portal to manage your resources and track your usage and costs.

Keep in mind that pricing may vary depending on the region and service you're using.

With Azure Pay As You Go, you can scale your virtual machines to meet changing business needs. Azure's automated scaling capabilities allow you to scale up or down in response to demand, without having to manually adjust resources.

You can easily manage your virtual machines from a single console, making it easy to monitor and control your resources. Azure's intuitive interface makes it simple to view and manage your virtual machines, storage, and networking resources.

Azure's automated patching and updating capabilities ensure your virtual machines are always up-to-date and secure, reducing the risk of downtime and data loss. This feature can be enabled or disabled as needed, giving you complete control over your virtual machine management.

With the pay-as-you-go plan, you can get started building and sharing apps without any license commitment or upfront purchasing. You can share apps and Power Automate flows with any user in your organization and only pay if and when they're used.

This plan includes Microsoft Dataverse storage capacity and provides the flexibility to pay for additional storage as you need it. You can manage and split costs across business units by leveraging the cost management reporting capabilities of Azure subscriptions.

Pricing information for this plan is available here.

Azure VM billing works on a "per hour" basis, so you'll only pay for the time your VM is actually running. This means if you leave a VM running all month, you'll pay for the entire month, but if you stop and deallocate it, you'll only be billed for the time it was running.

You'll only be charged for the time your VM is running because that's when actual compute hardware is dedicated to your VM. When you deallocate a VM, Microsoft Azure releases the hardware reservation so it can be used by another Azure resource.

If you simply shut down the operating system, the VM is still running in Microsoft Azure and you'll still be billed for the compute resources. To stop billing, you need to stop the VM and put it into a "deallocated" state.

Here are the key differences between "Stopped" and "Stopped (Deallocated)" states:

To avoid being charged for compute resources, make sure to stop your VM and put it into a "deallocated" state. You can do this by using the Azure Portal, Azure CLI, or PowerShell cmdlets.