Abs07act I searched through many, many, many…articles written about Azure VM stop(de-allocate) to save cost. Every article only targets single Azure VM to shutdown (de-allocate). None of the articles target start and Shutdown of multiple Azure VMs using automation. I am going to address this using Azure powershell in this article. What all Cool features of azure VM start/ stop my script offers? If you have multiple Azure VMs present in your azure subscription; and you want to start or stop few of them on schedule then you can use below azure PowerShell scripts. It will have below features – è   Add/ remove the VM names from the list of start/ stop schedule easily. [You don’t need to have PowerShell knowledge] è   Use same script in multiple different Azure runbooks, with different Azure VM names to start and stop; that too with different schedules. è   In case any wrong/ nonexistent VM name added to the list, script takes care of giving relative user-frie...

Abs07act Cost of Microsoft cloud is operational. This means every month you are going to get bill just as your grocery/ elec07icity/ phone bills. Having said that, companies are s07uggling these days to perform cost optimization or cost reduction on their Microsoft Azure spending. Current article provides an Azure cost optimization tip by sending the list of unassigned public IPs present in your Azure subscription; as an email using Azure PowerShell and Azure Automation runbook. Also I am talking about cost optimization (or cost reduction) for Public IP addresses related to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) mode. Knowledge Update for you!! In case you are not aware, it is worth to mention that, Azure has 2 types of IP addresses –   Dynamic public IP address   Static public IP address IP addresses are always attached to Network Interface Card (NIC) of azure virtual machine. So their cost model is as below. Dynamic public IP address IP address is att...