Windows Azure VM two shut down road

Today survey Azure when price, find the following statement, from Http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/

* If My deployed instance is in the ' Stopped ' state, do I still get billed?

If your instance is in the Stopped deallocated state, it's not billed. If your instance is on the Stopped allocated state, it is still occupying compute resources and would be billed for virtual Cores allocated, not the software license itself.

This means that if your VM is in stopped state, you will still be charged for CPU usage. And in the stopped deallocated state, completely free.

But did not mention how to achieve these two states, after testing found

1. Stopped status: Telnet to VM, perform shut down operation, VM status will change to stop state

2. Stopped deallocated Status: Log in to Azure Portal, select the VM, and click on the Shutdownbutton below. The VM will become stopped deallocated state

Note that after clicking on Shutdownbutton, the If you continue is prompted, the IP addresses that were assigned to this Vsan will be released. Is you sure want to shut down virtual machine * * * * *?

This means that the IP address used by this VM will be released and a new address will be assigned to it when it is started again.

DNS name does not change, so try not to use an IP address.

Amazon's AWS EC2 is a little bit better at this point, anyway shut down VMs are a state and will not be charged after shut down.

Microsoft's two shut down mode will not affect the server already on-line, due to the basic will not shut down after the launch. It only affects development. Test phase, the overall problem is not big.

But still hope that Microsoft can improve, merge shutdown state.

Note: netizen @ Centria Comment

"CPU time is always charged. Unless completely removed, assume that the delete is a VM. But retains his disk image, and is still in the open state of the VM when the same charge. This and Ms China confirmed after that. ”

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Windows Azure VM two shut down road