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Stopped or deallocated? What Azure actually charges for

The distinction that shows up on the bill, and how to see it in the portal.

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A stopped VM still bills for compute. A deallocated one does not. The portal shows both as Stopped.

Reading the power state

The distinction lives in the power state field, not the status column.

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