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Azure Resource Parking - Supported Capabilities by Service
Exactly what Park Your Cloud (PYC) automatically starts and stops ("parks") on Azure for your subscription, and what falls outside PYC's current scope. This reflects what PYC's Azure resource discovery and start/stop automation actually support today.
SUMMARY
| Service | PYC Supports | PYC Does Not Support |
|---|---|---|
| Virtual Machines | Start/stop (deallocate) of individual Azure VMs | VM Scale Sets, AKS node pools |
| Azure Database | MySQL Flexible Server, PostgreSQL Flexible Server, Azure SQL Managed Instance | Single/elastic-pool Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, single-server MySQL/PostgreSQL (deprecated), any other DB service |
BY SERVICE
1
Azure Virtual Machines
Supported
■ PYC starts and stops individual Azure VMs. Parking deallocates the VM (not just an OS-level shutdown), so compute billing actually stops.
■ If a VM is only OS-stopped but still allocated, PYC deallocates it on parking to ensure billing stops; on unparking it is started normally.
■ If the VM is mid-transition (starting, stopping, deallocating, creating) when a parking action runs, PYC waits and re-checks automatically before giving up.
Not Supported
■ VMs that have been deleted are no longer tracked - PYC marks them as removed rather than acting on them.
■ VM Scale Sets and AKS node pools are not covered by this VM parking logic.
2
Azure Databases
Supported
■ Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server: start/stop of the server.
■ Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server: start/stop of the server.
■ Azure SQL Managed Instance: start/stop of the instance.
■ For all three, PYC waits through Starting/Stopping/Updating transitions before reporting failure, and treats Deleting/Dropping resources as removed.
Not Supported
■ Single or elastic-pool Azure SQL Database (the standalone "Azure SQL Database" service, as opposed to SQL Managed Instance) is not supported.
■ Azure Database for MySQL/PostgreSQL "Single Server" - this is a separate, older deployment option that Microsoft has deprecated. It is not supported. (This is distinct from "Flexible Server", which PYC does support, above.)
■ Cosmos DB, and any other Azure data store, is not supported for parking.
Note
This page currently covers Azure VMs and three managed database types (MySQL Flexible Server, PostgreSQL Flexible Server, SQL Managed Instance) - what PYC's Azure resource discovery and start/stop automation support today. Other Azure services (AKS, Function Apps, App Services, Cosmos DB, etc.) are out of scope until added to the platform.