Downgrade Azure VPN Gateway to Basic

Question

Hi,

We had an Azure Migration POC and Microsoft provided us sponsorship. Results are positive but we want to cut some cost on the VPN Gateway since it cost at about $350 for about a month, we used the VPNGW2. We just want to know how to downgrade this to Basic tier. The Basic tier is not present on the dropdown.

Hope someone can help us on this.

Thanks in advance.

Allan G.

Answer 1

Hi Allan,

To downgrade you need to delete the existing gateway and create a new Basic VPN Gateway using PowerShell or CLI, with Basic SKU Public IP.

Please see sample code below for creating Basic VPN Gateway.

$location = "westus3"
$resourceGroup = "basic-vnet-gateway-group"
$vnetAddressSpace = "10.20.0.0/16"
$gatewaySubnet = "10.20.0.0/27"
New-AzResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroup -Location $location
$subnetConfig = New-AzVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig -Name GatewaySubnet -AddressPrefix $gatewaySubnet
$vngwPIP = New-AzPublicIpAddress -Name myvngw-ip -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Location $location -Sku Basic -AllocationMethod Dynamic
$vnet = New-AzVirtualNetwork -Name myvngw-vnet -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Location $location -AddressPrefix $vnetAddressSpace -Subnet $subnetConfig
$subnet = Get-AzVirtualNetworkSubnetConfig -Name GatewaySubnet -VirtualNetwork $vnet
$vngwIpConfig = New-AzVirtualNetworkGatewayIpConfig -Name vngwipconfig -SubnetId $subnet.Id -PublicIpAddressId $vngwPIP.Id
New-AzVirtualNetworkGateway -Name myvngw-gw -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup -Location $location -IpConfigurations $vngwIpConfig -GatewayType Vpn -VpnType RouteBased -GatewaySku Basic

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Thanks.

-TP