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VM Costs If I Temporarily Upgrade My VM Machine .

If I change my Azure VM to a more powerful setup (more and more powerful Processors / more RAM) it will of course cost me more $ for each usage period. But if I use it that way for only a day (for example for a presentation) and switch back to the lower quality setup - will my $ usage charges immediately go back to the old cost schedule of the lower setup?

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Hi @RichardMoffat-5020 ,

the rate for VM compute is charged per second. You could switch forth and back with the SKU size as you like, you will be charged for the VM SKU per second.

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Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/windows/

There is another statement the VM compute is charged by minute:

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Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/knowledge-center/if-my-virtual-machine-ran-for-6-minutes-and-45/



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Andreas Baumgarten





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RichardMoffat-5020 answered

That's what I HOPED but just wanted to make sure.

That is incredibly handy to know ...

Thanx a lot.

Dick
ps Second or minute does not matter to me - it's MONTH that scares me ;-)

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