Azure is touted as saving through paying only for availability - but I can't find anything in the docs/FAQ regarding time-window service availability (only fail-over/clustering etc availability of course).
So, if we just want to pay for actual available time for VMs (eg. providing business hour demos, or a customer doesn't want their servers available out-of-business-hours), how do we implement that?
Otherwise, the cost of the Azure VMs is the same as our dedicated servers with datacentre companies, so we'd stick with those.
Pointers to docs, confirmation or suggestions welcome! TIA, Phil.
NB: I appreciate we can set a scheduled Task to run C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe or some PowerShell script, but would need to know that physical shutdown would stop billing (can't test currently as the billing screen seems to be delayed by at least a day). Also, it doesn't solve the problem of automatically restarting the VM each morning!