Starting/stopping Azure VMs during off-hours

In many cases, services you are administering do not have to be enabled once developers and testers finish their workday. In on-premises systems, whether your system is running or not does not affect its cost—you have already paid for the hardware, so it should be on to utilize its resources. Fortunately, in Azure, you may use out-of-the-box features that can help you achieve the expected level of VM automation and governance. Let's check how this can be done with just a few steps.