Azure Subscription being billed even after the resources causing the bill have been deleted

Question

I created an azure SQL database and was being charged for the created database. There were two databases on the azure sql server. One was a free tier database while the second one is the one that was being charged. I deleted the database that was being charged when I found out and yet I was charged for an extra day, I have now deleted both the database server and the free tier database but the forecasted cost on cost analysis keeps sky rocketting. I need the billing to stop and not forecasted again as my account has no business with those resources again. As I have deleted the resources, will the billing stop now? because its still reflecting in the forecasted cost.

Answer 1

Hi,

The forecast is not updated immediately. It normally lags days behind, so even if you have no chargeable resources in your subscription it will still show forecasted amount based on what existed previously.

Please note there is a delay from the time you incur charges to the time they show up in billing. For example, say you created a virtual machine. The various charges (compute, managed disk, public IP, etc.) for the VM will typically not start showing up in your subscription overview and/or Cost Analysis until several hours later.

I mention the delay because you said you deleted the database and were charged for an extra day. I would expect you to see some additional hours of database charges to come in after you deleted the database, but these should stop.

Please open Cost Analysis, and then at the top select View - CostByResource. Next to that, there is a date filter whereby you can select custom date ranges. Please select range that includes only current date (January 10, 2024). Give it a few seconds for the screen to update the data below. Do you see any charges for your database?

Now, select date range for January 9, 2024. Do charges appear? Experiment for previous dates as well. In this way you can see charges that came in for each day. What you should notice is after a certain date no new charges for the database have come in. If new charges continue to accrue even though you deleted all databases more than a day ago then you know there is a problem and you need to create new billing support request.

Understand Cost Management data - Cost and usage data updates and retention

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/understand-cost-mgt-data#cost-and-usage-data-updates-and-retention

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Thanks.

-TP