Is there an Azure built-in role that can start/stop/restart virtual machines?

Paul Nerie 266 Reputation points
2021-09-15T03:46:30.287+00:00

I seen how to do it by creating a custom role:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23668154/allow-users-to-start-stop-particular-azure-vms/49925159

Isn't there built-in role to do this?

Or can you directly assign a user such permissions on a VM without creating a role?

Thanks in advance!

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  1. Paul Nerie 266 Reputation points
    2021-09-15T05:05:31.443+00:00

    Found it, it's 'Virtual Machine Contributor' role.

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  1. Lopez, Jose Ramon 6 Reputation points
    2023-06-07T14:21:20.98+00:00

    Virtual machine contributor gives more access than start/stopping/restarting a vm. better way is a custom rol as the link provided by Paul Nerie

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  2. Birendra Singh 181 Reputation points
    2021-09-15T06:22:39.34+00:00

    Hi There,

    Adding Azure AD users in RBAC of VM and assigning them Virtual Machine Contributor role can help on that