I really need a help here. Overnight there were around 35 resource group created using my account and I am now in trouble trying to detach my credit card. The reason for that, is that I panickly disable the subscription then I removed all user roles appointed in my account. Now I am stuck with this spiral problem: cannot detach credit card as there is still subscription exists > cannot activate subscription as I have no roles assigned.
Any suggestion what to do now?
I also cannot use help desk assistant as my subscription is disabled, however, the cost keeps incurring as there are still resource groups under my disabled subscription.
Thank you for your help.
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I made web app for contest and I was using "Azure for Students" subscription for it. But I lost all of my free credits so I decided to move to "Pay as you go" subscription plan but I don't know how.
And when I trying to change subscription I getting message like this:
Can't move resources from disabled subscription
I used 129$ / 100$ from my Student's subscription and I can't enable it.
Any ideas how to fix it?
As mentioned in the Azure for Students FAQ, to continue using Azure after you exhaust your available credits, you may upgrade to a Pay-As-You-Go subscription by contacting Azure Support. After you upgrade, you pay only for services you use over the free quantity included.
After you exhaust your available credit or reach the end of 12 months, your Azure subscription will be disabled. If you've reached the end of your 12 months and are still a student, you'll be able to renew your Azure for Students offer. You will be notified shortly before your 12-month period to let you know how to renew. If you are no longer a student, you may choose to upgrade to a Pay-As-You-Go subscription.
If you decide not to upgrade at the end of 12 months or after you have exhausted your 100 USD credit, whichever occurs first, any products you have deployed will be decommissioned and you will not be able to access them.
However, you can always export your resource definitions in the form of Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM templates) to be reused later. Just like application code, you can store the infrastructure code in a source repository and version it. Any one on your team can run the code and deploy similar environments.
I am new to Azure and while trying things I have created and deleted several resources and now my subscription is disable because I do not have any credits left.
I thought when I delete a resource I have created by mistake the credit will restore as well, its not true?
what should I do now?
When you create a new Azure Resource you start getting billed.
When you delete a resource the billing for that resource stops, but remember you will be charged for the time the resource was active.
If the total of all the charges exceeds your limit, the account will ask for Credit Card details to start charging it.
You can go the Cost Management + Billing section in Azure portal to get details of all the charges incurred for that Subscription.
I'm fairly new to Azure. I have a personal website in the cloud and played around with some stuff, but that's it. Since I have my first client project coming up in which I will use certain Azure functionality, I was wondering on how to deal with billing.
I will of course put all the resources needed for the client under a new resource group, but the thing I'm wondering about is which subscription to link that resource group to.
Option 1 :
I link it to my own subscription. Least interesting as I would have to send the client an invoice every month charging him the costs that I made through my subscription for his project.
Option 2 :
I add a new subscription under my Azure account, using the client's credit card. This is the most interesting for me as I can see all resources under my Azure account and the client gets billed automatically. But you have to convince the client to give you their credit card information so you can create the subscription.
Option 3 :
The client makes his own Azure account, with a subscription under that account using his credit card. This is less interesting for me as I have to manage 2 Azure accounts. But it's more interesting for the client as they can create their own account and don't have to give me their credit card details.
What's the typical way to go about this? Are there other options that I'm missing? Thanks!
This is a poor question over all (for Stack Overflow at least). But common sense says:
they give you access to their subscription(s)
you create resources in your subscriptions, bill them.
We have three developers in my startup and we are members of Microsoft Bizpark.
I am the only back-end developer so i create and control all the resources in our azure portal.
Even though i made the other members as owners of our resources (settings->users) i am still the only one losing credits. I always reach the limit and they always have 150$ left.
Is it possible to transfer the cost of a resource to another member or do i have to create it again from theirs accounts?
Thank you in advance for any response!
I've been using bizspark also, and there is no way to transfer elements between accounts. Depending on the objects you are planning to move, some of them, you will have to create a backup and restore them in the new account.
Basically, you have to create them again. It's a pain, but if you order your components you can get the most out of the 5 accounts wiht 150 usd.
Problem
We deploy a mixed SaaS, PaaS, IaaS solutions on Micorosft Azure. Recently our account was suspended due to a Microsoft credit limit.
1) The account billing and technical contact received no warning of the approaching credit limit. When the account was suspended alerts were raised instantly. In response I simply lifted the credit limit and the account was accessible again.
2) All VMs could then be started again within seconds and thrid party add-ons were operational automatically.
3) Cloud Services were displayed but all the web/worker role instances in each were stopped. On attempting to start it was clear the deployments had been deleted !
Questions
Does any one know or understand why the deployment packages are removed when an Azure account subscription has been disabled ?
VM, storages accounts, add-ons are persist so why delete the cloud service instances / deployment packages ?
Anyway to mitigate this issue ?
Result is 60 min downtime to upload and deploy packages from source control. Examining enterprise accounts and invoicing.
Thank you for any advice.
Scott
Currently, subscriptions which has monthly credits such as MSDN, MPN and Bizspark plus has a feature called spending limit. This feature is enabled by default to prevent any charges on your credit card. When this sending limit is triggered, the subscription is disabled for the remaining billing cycle and will be automatically re-enabled when the credit is reset which is on the start of the new billing cycle.
When the subscription is disabled, Cloud services (web and worker role) deployments are deleted as only the deployment file is uploaded on Azure and the source file would still be available by the developer. However, Virtual machines are created within Azure platform, hence VMs are stopped de-allocated when the subscription is disabled. The web services deployments are dealt with differently i.e they are deleted it’s a legacy of how the platform was built and is scaled.
The Azure portal shows the credit utilized and remaining balance for the subscription and notifying the credit status over email is still not available. However, when the subscription is disabled, a notification is sent to the account owner.
Possible mitigation involves:
moving to standard payment terms , away from pay-as-you-go account.
remove the credit limit
possibly a continuous deployment strategy via Team Foundation Server or the like could automate redeployment (no doubt there are other automation methods too).
Unfortunately if the Azure subscription is suspended service deployments are deleted and must be uploaded again. If you have multiple large deployment packages this could take many hours.
Hope that helps someone.
Additionally, if you have shared websites, they will get suspended. There is no way to resume them until the credit period is reset, so you need to delete and recreate them.