Automating the shutdown of your Azure VMs

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Rob Waggoner

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I talked about how you can use Powershell to shutdown your VMs in Azure here, I also want to point out a way to use Azure automation to make the same thing happen.  Azure automation allows us to give Azure scripts to execute and we can even define the times these scripts execute.  Think about our normal customers; are they really 24x7 shops?  Or can we help them save money by shutting down some or all of their VMs after hours?

We have a TechNet Gallery and it includes Azure Powershell scripts to automate the shutdown and startup of your Azure VMs.  The Azure Gallery is here, the actual shutdown Runbook was created by a partner and is posted here.  The same partner posted the startup script here.  As we continue to use Azure for our workloads, it does encourage us to look at different ways to accomplish our goals.  Stopping non-essential VMs after hours could save a lot of money in the long run.

Until next time,

Rob