I have a monthly spending limit of $150 Azure credit on my subscription and it is for free. However, I just went over it and I am wondering what happen to my charges and subscription? Will I get charged separately from $150? Will Azure services shut down in order to stop incurring charges?
Will Azure services shut down in order to stop incurring charges?
Yes. Once you exceed your spending limit, your subscription will be disabled and as a result of that your services will become inaccessible. Your subscription will be enabled automatically on your next billing start date.
I have a monthly Azure Credit account, and I know I can't purchase more users using the Azure Credits. I would like to purchase them normally. I have already disabled my Spending Limit. However, i am still unable to purchase. Please help.
I am hoping to use Windows Azure for an internal application at work. I have signed up, and hoping to take advantage of the FREE 90 day trial to see if it offers what we need.
So my question is, on the dashboard what do I need to select to get the free trial?
I do not want to select something which ends up costing us, while we are just looking into the possibility of using it. Or do I just what services we need and they are taken from the trial allowance?
You do whatever services you need and they are taken from the trial allowance.
If you hit the trial allowance all your services will be deleted, but the data in storage account will be kept. You will not be able to do anything until the next billing cycle begins.
When you create a trial by default it has "SPENDING LIMIT", be sure NOT TO REMOVE IT, if you do not want charges.
We belong to bizspark program and have an Azure subscription that has been disabled.
Unfortunately, we don't know why and how to see what percentage of our resources is spent.
Anyone know also when Bizspark subscriptions are reenabled?
Your account has been disabled because you have reached your spending limit.
To get more information:
Go to manage.windowsazure.com
click on your email address in the top right corner
select Account
Log in
Click on your subscription and you can view a summary of charges
If you want your account to be re-enabled for this period, you will have to adjust your spending limit above $0. Be careful though, once you do that, I don't think you can go back.
Try going to https://account.windowsazure.com/Subscriptions (log in if necessary), and once you're there, click on the subscription in question. That should take you to a summary page on the billing for the account.
By default, it shows only the common usage metrics - it's likely you have exceeded one of these, and it should be easy to figure out which component put you over, but if not, try clicking the drop down that says "Show Common Usage" and change that to "Show All Usage".
As to your second question, the disable/re-enable cycle happens monthly, and if you've had your account for more than a month, it should have "snapped" to a period that spans from the first to the last of the month. If not, your period could be different, spanning from the first day you had the account to 30 days after, and "snapping" at that point, or it could be a pro-rated period that is from the first day of your account to the last day of the same month, with usage quotas pro-rated into it.
Regardless, your stuff should be re-enabled on the first day of the next billing period (which could be today, or perhaps September 1st, depending on what put you over).
I did face a similar issue with manage.windowsazure.com portal, but I'm successful in creating apps/site with the same subscription on the new portal (portal.azure.com). Once after creating an App/site in the new portal, this problem is resolved (even I'm able to publish from Visual Studio).
Hope this helps someone.
I had this problem but had definitely not reached my spending limit, I had $100 credit left. Yet I was getting the following message
We were unable to find any Active subscriptions associated with your account. SIGN UP FOR WINDOWS AZURE PRODUCTION PORTAL WINDOWS AZURE HOME PAGE CONTACT SUPPORT
In my case, it was because I had logged in to MSDN at some time with company credentials. So although the URL for my azure indicated my username and account such as:
https://manage.windowsazure.com/#mynamegmail.onmicrosoft.com#Workspaces/All/dashboard
Even though I had already selected sign out on MSDN, Somehow it was mixing the two accounts. I had to sign out of Azure from the Manage Azure screen and sign back in again with my personal Microsoft account.
I'm not sure whether this is the right place to ask this question, but I'd like to give Amazon RDS's trial a go. Previously I've used Microsoft SQL Azure's trial and they cut me off as soon as I overshot the limit, preventing me from paying a single cent.
However, with Amazon RDS's trial, it seems that I will be charged as soon as I exceed their limits. I'd just like to know if there's anything in particular I should look out for, that I might miss out, and be charged because of that.
Of course, I'd prefer it if there is a way for me to prevent me from exceeding the free-of-charge limits.
Many thanks...
As far as I know you can't set a hard limit. As far as I can tell the only limits you can hit are the time one or the IO limit: RDS won't magically grow your storage size or your instance size for you.
You can however setup a billing alert: amazon billing charges are available as a metric in cloud watch (amazon's monitoring system), so you can create alerts base on them (for example to send you an email). You can set this up from the account activity page or you can configure the alerts as you would with any other cloudwatch metric.