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I subscribed to free 90 days azure trail offered by MS. I was excited and talked about it everywhere(including my blog http://techibee.com/windows-2012/free-try-windows-server-2012-in-azure-for-90-days/1876) about the free service offered by MS and how to make use of it. Well, my excitement lasted only for 7-8 days. Today I got a message from Azure team that my subscription disabled as my computer hours exceed the monthly limit.

I am just wondering how these compute hours are calculated in my case. I configured 2 VMs(2 medium) and using them to explore stuff. I never shutdown them since creation. Anyone has idea how these two VMs constituted to limits.

Another question I have is, since the subscription is disabled for this month, I am considering purchasing few more compute hours(pay-as-you-go). If I do that now, should I shutdown the VMs when I am not using them actively? will it stop the compute hours from increasing or they will continue to charge me for even shutdown hours. All I want is, I should get billed only when I am actively using it, when I am not connected to that host, I shouldn't. Looks like this is not happened in the trail program and their calculations seems different. Can anyone here given me some clarity?

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With the free trial account you can configure only 1 VMs medium. Probably your offered expired early becouse you configured two.

Be aware that if you create a VM and you turn it off you will be charged the same as indicated when your turn off a VM.

于 2012-10-12T07:27:50.433 回答
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From http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/#header-3

Compute hours are charged whenever the Virtual Machine is deployed, irrespective of whether it is running or not.

That's where all your hours went. You need to delete your VMs to prevent them using compute time.

于 2012-10-12T07:30:30.753 回答