I have a Virtual Machine or VM on the cloud and I pay for this ‘by the hour’. I only use it 8 hours per day; so is there a way to automatically turn it off and on on a fixed schedule to save me money in my cloud operating budget?
Yes absolutely; and it is a great idea. You can reduce your VM spend from $100 per week (leaving the VM on all the time) down to $24 (for a 40-hour work week). This stretches your cloud dollar by a factor of 4! As of August 2024 we have these reference links for setting up an automatic on/off timer:
Also note that when you create the VM resource: The “wizard” helping you along the way may offer to set up a timer as part of that process.