After a parks pilot ends, a city engineer leaves unattached managed disks and unused public IP addresses in the subscription. Why can those leftovers still increase the Azure bill?
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Short Explanation
Leaving the lights on in an empty room still burns the bill. Unattached disks and idle public IPs often keep metering. Cleaning up leftover resources is a classic cost-control habit after a pilot wraps.
Full Explanation
Azure charges for many resources based on allocation, not only on active VM runtime. Managed disks and public IP addresses can generate cost while unused if they remain provisioned. Identifying idle or orphaned resources as cost drivers is a fundamentals cost-management concept. Policy evaluation volume and Service Health listings are not what create those disk or IP charges.