az vm

Virtual machines

high risk

interactive breakdown — edit the command and press Explain

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⚠ Risks & cautions

Deallocate may change dynamic public IPs.
delete removes VM; disks/NICs may remain or be deleted.

What it does

Manage VMs. See the flags and examples below, and run `man az` for the full reference.

Examples

az vm list -d -o tableVMs with power state · explain & risk-check →

az vm deallocate -g rg -n vmStop and release compute · explain & risk-check →

Related

Open the full explainer →More in AWS, Azure & GCP CLIs

Reference text is hand-written and may be incomplete — check man az for your version. Test destructive commands on a non-production system first.