PowerApps DropDown list connection to Azure - azure

I'm trying to get a DropDown list in my PowerApps app to connect its Items to a specific group of users, with help of Azure.
In other words: populate the DropDown with a list of names, e.g. the members of the Economics group I have created elsewhere.
Apparently, following the link: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/General-Discussion/Import-a-List-of-users-from-Azure-AD-Group/td-p/54160 ,
in PowerApps this is not working as-is:
Items = AzureAD.GetGroupMembers("xxxxxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx").value
(Error: "Calling an unknown or not supported function").
I suspect I have to go to the Azure portal and enable something in Azure AD to get it to work, but I feel a bit intimidated before the sheer amount of settings and options
available here. Could anybody please give some guidance?
EDIT: I must not necessarily have Azure doing this (someway it feels like calling the fire department to fill a glass of water for me). If I could do it some other way, feel free to tell me!

Before the AzureAD.GetGroupMembers will be recognised in your app, you have to:
Add Azure AD to your connections in the PowerApps portal
Add the Azure AD connection to your app

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Image shows the home page with recent resources and showing the notification panel.
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A few weeks after I get the message that all my MSDN Pro-free-quota is used up. I can see that 99.9 of the resources was eaten up by
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Thanks Feranto! Your help lead me to the answer!
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Go to the azure portal
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Select your subscription
There you can see an overview
Then you can click the graph that says "Costs by resource"
Here you will get a complete detail of your costs by the name of component, what type of component it is and finally to what resource group it belongs
Here you will be able to see every component by its original name, type or resource group name. Hope this works out for you!
And for the bonus question, if you are using PAAS services in azure it is not enough just to stop the service as it is in IAAS with vms. The only way to stop an app service from charging you is either deleting it or updating the App plan service to the Free tier. I would recommend the second one.
This is in the first faq in Microsoft's App Service website. :
Am I charged for apps while they are in stopped state?
Yes. Rates listed apply to apps in stopped state. Please delete apps
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