Why am I get charged even thogh the compute instance is stopped in azure machine learning

Question

My compute instances in azure machine learning are in stop state since 2 days, However I have been charged around $30. I have two compute instances

• STANDARD_DS11_V2
• STANDARD_D2_V3

Answer 1

Hi,

Even if we stopped by shutting down or deallocate the VM, there will be a cost for storage of VM, your personal data in azure VM. You are continuously charged for disk, public IP address (if using), software products inside the VM, Windows licenses and so on.

So, when ever you don't need VM delete it, delete IP.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/259286/azure-vm-billing.html

Answer 2

Hi @Yugesh ,

in the Cost Analysis you can change View to Cost by resource . This should show which Azure resource is charged in a more detailed way.

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Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 3

Your Azure VMs are using a storage account in order to provide the OS-disk (and/or data-disks)... even in stopped state those disks weren't deleted, so you have to pay a little fee for providing (disk-)storage for your VMs.

Thats why you are charged with $30 during that stopped state.