I have recently been asked a number of questions both internally and from customers about when you will be billed for Azure usage.

As Eric Nelson’s recent post describes, if you suspend a service you will still be paying this is due to the fact you will still have your application deployed on the server ready to start again. With your application utilizing the server others will not be able to provision its usage.

When you select delete you will stop paying as you will no longer have servers provisioned for your application and the recourses will be freed up for others to use.