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drifting forge Jun 9, 2025, 5:02 PM

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Aloha all,

I've been a casual user of Azure for about six months now, really just use it to run a virtual desktop I can access from work.

I use Bastion to connect and hadn't had any problems until this month. Typically, I rack up about $20 to $30 dollars in charges every month.

But this month, it's trying to charge me over $200 dollars and lists most of those charges coming from Bastion.

I'm only using Bastion to connect to one small windows 10 VM a few hours a day. I've tried to analyze the charges, contact support (impossible), etc.

Any advise on how I can figure out what is going on?

I've tried to create a Support ticket, but it just won't let me. The only option it ever allows to to use is Request a Refund, but then it won't show me any invoices to select, and I'm stuck.

cloud crown Jun 9, 2025, 6:59 PM

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Bastion is billed hourly from deployment to deletion except on the Developer tier which is free. Did you switch from developer tier to basic perhaps?

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On further research it seems there has been Bastion issues on the microsoft side where the developer tier has been problematic for months.

I don't know what happened to you, if it was switched to Basic on its own or something else, but worth looking into:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2263387/azure-bastion-developer-sku-is-missing-in-the-supp

Azure Bastion Developer SKU is missing in the supported regions. - ...

Hello,
As per Azure documentation the developer SKU for azure bastion is available in Central India region :https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bastion/quickstart-developer
But where is the developer SKU? Please advise.

drifting forge Jun 9, 2025, 7:40 PM

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cloud crown Bastion is billed hourly from deployment to deletion except on the Developer tie...

I dont recall making any changes but I'll try to look and see if that's what happened

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I just wish support wasn't so worthless

drifting forge Jun 10, 2025, 3:52 AM

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Okay, so I figured out what happened

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Bastion Developer hasn't been available for like a month

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So it automagically switched people over to the expensive paid version of Bastion

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Time to cancel Azure I guess

cloud crown Jun 10, 2025, 4:23 AM

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at least that's an argument you can use to request a refund

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also, if you continue using azure, always set up cost alerts

astral talon Jun 10, 2025, 10:23 AM

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drifting forge So it automagically switched people over to the expensive paid version of Bastio...

This is really strange. I know the Developer was not available but if you deployed it during a time it was available, you were able to continue using it. Also you mentioned some charges for bastion being 20$/30$ but that would not happen with Bastion in Developer SKU.

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If you are about to raise the refund request, please update this thread. We have Developer Bastion in almost every tenant so that info would be usefull. Thx

cloud crown Jun 10, 2025, 11:22 AM

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I think the $20/$30 was for the entire azure sub. Then $200 aligns up well with the expected cost of one month of bastion being $130-160 +

drifting forge Jun 10, 2025, 5:49 PM

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astral talon If you are about to raise the refund request, please update this thread. We have...

Have you checked it recently? My understanding is that Bastion Developer is down for everyone

drifting forge Jun 10, 2025, 5:50 PM

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cloud crown I think the $20/$30 was for the entire azure sub. Then $200 aligns up well with ...

Yes. I was paying 20-someting a month for everything. Then just the other day I got a charge of 200 for just bastion

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Which was for 1 month of bastion

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Ill be honest and say that I dropped Azure this morning and switched to Google Cloud.

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I did put in a refund request, and it was approved

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But I just dont see me using Azure for my needs without free bastion

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I thought 30 a month for what i was doing was pricy anyway

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I only use Azure to access discord and chatgpt at work

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