(Cloud) Tip of the Day: Announcing Auto-Shutdown for VMs using Azure Resource Manager

03/02/2017

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Today’s Tip…

We are excited to announce you can set any ARM-based Virtual Machines to auto-shutdown with a few simple clicks!

This feature was previously only available for VM deployed in DevTest Labs. However, we learned from quite a few customers that they have their centrally managed DevTest workloads already running in Azure and simply want to set auto-shutdown for those VMs. Since those workloads have already been provisioned and managed centrally, self-service is not really needed. It’s a little bit overkill for them to create a DevTest lab in this case just for the auto-shutdown settings. That’s why we make this popular feature, VM Auto-Shutdown, available to all the ARM-based Azure VMs.

You can quickly configure Auto-Shutdown in three easy steps: