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The Hidden Cost We Don't Know We Have, and How To Fix It
One line in my lab scripts was going to cost about $400 a month, used or not. Where hidden Azure costs hide, and the inventory routine with Azure Resource Inventory that catches the rest.
In this debate, one host defends the post and the other is a fair skeptic who asks what you would ask.
Questions this episode answers
Why can an unused Azure service still cost money? Azure Bastion is billed by the hour from the moment it is deployed. Two hosts in two regions would have cost about $400 a month before anyone logged in.
Does shutting down a VM stop the bill? Not from inside the operating…
The skinny
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