What Constitutes a Compute Hour or Cost/Hour

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Preface

I\'ve been shopping around for cloud based hosting solutions, particularly MS Azure & Amazon\'s EC2. They, Microsoft and Amazon, have pr

Answer 1

To be more clear, the time your app is deployed means the time the server/s instance/s that host your app is active. Effectively the time is measured in clock hours.

[Edited] A "stopped" VM on Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS model) no longer consumes compute hours, you will only be billed by the storage/managed disks until you decide to delete the VM.