can we de allocate application gateway or disck associated with Azure VM

Question

like for Azure VM we can stop vm for reducing the cost, but disk associated with still costs.
is there any way so that we can de allocate the Disk/app gateway

Answer 1

Hello @Ramakant Galande ,

In addition to what @Andreas Baumgarten suggested. You can leverage Azure CLI or PS incase, Azure Portal doesn’t allow you to stop application gateway.

In such cases, Azure cmdline helps. Open the Azure Cloud Shell or local PowerShell with Az module installed and use the following:

Get Azure Application Gateway

$appgw=Get-AzApplicationGateway -Name <appgw_name> -ResourceGroupName <rg_name>

Stop the Azure Application Gateway

Stop-AzApplicationGateway -ApplicationGateway $appgw

Start the Azure Application Gateway (optional)

Start-AzApplicationGateway -ApplicationGateway $appgw

Azure Portal updates the Application Gateway:

Azure Portal - Application Gateway Stopping
Verify the application gateway has stopped state. You will only billed for the public IP assigned to the stopped Application Gateway (saves money significantly):

Please "Accept as Answer" if any of above helped so that, it can help others in community looking for remediation for the similar issues.

Answer 2

Hi @Ramakant Galande ,

disk resources of a VM in Azure can't be deallocated. If the VM is deallocated only the VM compute costs are affected.
The reason is: The disk resources are required for the VM (OS disk, data disk) and occupy space/resources in Azure even if the VM is stopped/deallocated.

As far as I know an Azure Application Gateway can't be deallocated as well. The only option to save money is to delete the app gateway and redeploy (manually or via script) every time it is needed.

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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten