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Re:Show HN: Burst – start a cloud server, run your code, tur... by jonathantf2 on Monday August 16, 2021 @04:48AM (#28196132)
On Azure if you create a VM, by default it'll be set to auto shutdown at 7pm that night, I think you can turn it off but by default it's on to avoid billshock.
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Re:Show HN: Burst – start a cloud server, run your code, tur... by YPPH on Monday August 16, 2021 @05:12AM (#28196246)
I don't recall this being the case from the time I tried Azure, and can't find anything about it in the documentation. It would leave many people wondering why their instance was turned off.

Perhaps it is a feature of Azure Lab Services, and you were using that?

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Re:Show HN: Burst – start a cloud server, run your code, tur... by jonathantf2 on Monday August 16, 2021 @08:10AM (#28197136)
Just looked it up, apparently it's only happens with ARM (Azure Resource Manager) templates, I usually pick the Ubuntu or Windows server ones which is why it applies the autoshutdown rule.
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Re:Show HN: Burst – start a cloud server, run your code, tur... by vladvasiliu on Monday August 16, 2021 @05:22AM (#28196309)
As the sibling said, I don't remember seeing that. I don't usually use Azure, so when I last started a VM there a few months ago I didn't do any special config, and the VM kept on running forever, as expected.

And there are no policies set up by someone else that I don't know about, we don't usually use Azure for VMs.

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