Cancel your Azure subscription

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You can cancel your Azure subscription in the Azure portal if you no longer demand it.

Although not required, Microsoft recommends that y'all take the following actions earlier you cancel your subscription:

  • Support your data. For example, if you lot're storing information in Azure storage or SQL, download a copy. If you take a virtual machine, save an prototype of it locally.
  • Shut downwards your services. Get to the resources page in the direction portal, and Stop any running virtual machines, applications, or other services.
  • Consider migrating your information. See Motion resources to new resource group or subscription.
  • Delete all resources and all resource groups.
  • If you have any custom roles that reference this subscription in AssignableScopes, you should update those custom roles to remove the subscription. If you endeavor to update a custom function after you abolish a subscription, you might get an mistake. For more information, run across Troubleshoot problems with custom roles and Azure custom roles.

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After you cancel your subscription, y'all'll receive a final invoice for the pay-equally-you-get usage that you incurred in the last billing cycle.

If you cancel a paid Azure Back up plan, you lot're billed for the residuum of the subscription term. For more information, see Azure support plans.

Who can cancel a subscription?

The table beneath describes the permission required to cancel a subscription.

Subscription type Who can cancel
Subscriptions created when you lot sign upward for Azure through the Azure website. For example, when you lot sign up for an Azure Costless Account, account with pay-as-y'all-go rates or every bit a Visual studio subscriber. Service administrator and subscription owner
Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and Enterprise Dev/Test Service administrator and subscription owner
Azure program and Azure plan for DevTest Owners of the subscription

An account administrator without the service ambassador or subscription owner role can't abolish an Azure subscription. However, an account administrator can brand themself the service administrator then they can cancel a subscription. For more information, meet Change the Service Administrator.

Cancel subscription in the Azure portal

  1. Select your subscription from the Subscriptions page in the Azure portal.
  2. Select the subscription that you want to cancel.
  3. Select Overview, and then select Cancel subscription. Screenshot that shows the Cancel button
  4. Follow prompts and finish counterfoil.

Notation

Partners can suspend or cancel a subscription if requested by a customer or in cases of nonpayment or fraud. For more data, see Suspend or abolish a subscription.

Cancel a support programme

If you purchased your support plan through the Azure website, Azure portal, or if you have one under a Microsoft Customer Agreement, you can cancel a support programme. If you purchased your support plan through a Microsoft representative or partner, contact them for assist.

Cancel a support plan bought from the Azure portal

  1. In the Azure portal, navigate to Cost Management + Billing.
  2. On the Overview page, find your plan and and then select it.
  3. On the support plan page, select Cancel.
  4. In the Abolish back up window, verify that y'all want to cancel and select Aye, abolish.
    Screenshot showing the legacy Cancel support plan page.

Cancel a support plan for a Microsoft Customer Agreement

  1. In the Azure portal, navigate to Toll Management + Billing.
  2. Nether Billing, select Recurring charges.
  3. On the right-hand side for the support plan line item, select the ellipsis (...) and select Turn off auto-renewal.

What happens after subscription cancellation?

Afterward yous cancel, billing is stopped immediately. Yet, it can have upwards to ten minutes for the cancellation to evidence in the portal. If yous cancel in the middle of a billing period, we send the last invoice on your typical invoice date after the menstruum ends.

Afterward you abolish, your services are disabled. That ways your virtual machines are de-allocated, temporary IP addresses are freed, and storage is read-only.

After your subscription is canceled, Microsoft waits 30 - 90 days before permanently deleting your data in example you need to admission it or you change your listen. We don't charge yous for keeping the information. To learn more than, see Microsoft Trust Eye - How we manage your data.

Delete gratis trial or pay-as-you-go subscriptions

If you have a costless trial or pay-equally-you-go subscription, yous don't take to wait 90 days for the subscription to automatically delete. Yous can delete your subscription three days after you abolish it. The Delete subscription option isn't available until three days after you abolish your subscription.

  1. Expect iii days later on the date you canceled the subscription.
  2. Select your subscription on the Subscriptions page in the Azure portal.
  3. Select the subscription that you want to delete.
  4. Select Overview, and then select Delete subscription.

Note: 90 days later on you cancel a subscription, the subscription will automatically be deleted.

Delete other subscriptions

The just subscription types that you lot can manually delete are free trial and pay-equally-you-go subscriptions. All other subscription types are deleted only through the subscription cancellation process. In other words, you can't delete a subscription directly unless it's a gratis trial or pay-every bit-you-go subscription. Withal, afterward y'all cancel a subscription, you can create an Azure support asking to enquire to accept the subscription deleted immediately.

Reactivate a subscription

If you cancel your subscription with Pay-As-You-Go rates accidentally, yous tin reactivate it in the Azure portal.

If your subscription isn't a subscription with Pay-As-You-Get rates, contact support inside 90 days of cancellation to reactivate your subscription.

Why don't I come across the Abolish Subscription option on the Azure portal?

You may not have the permissions required to abolish a subscription. See Who tin can cancel a subscription? for a description of who tin cancel various types of subscriptions.

How do I delete my Azure Business relationship?

I need to remove my account including all my personal information. I already canceled my active (Free Trial) subscriptions. I don't have any active subscriptions, and would like to totally delete my account.

  • If you lot have an Azure Agile Directory business relationship via your organization, the Azure Advert administrator could delete the business relationship. After that, your services are disabled. That means your virtual machines are de-allocated, temporary IP addresses are freed, and storage is read-merely. In summary, in one case you cancel, billing is stopped immediately.

  • If you don't have an Azure AD business relationship via your organization, you lot can cancel then delete your Azure subscriptions then remove your credit card from the account. While the action doesn't delete the business relationship, it renders information technology inoperable. You can go a step further and also delete the associated Microsoft account if information technology's non being used for any other purpose.

How do I cancel a Visual Studio Professional account?

See the Renewal and Cancellation article. If y'all have any Visual Studio Azure subscriptions, they need to be canceled and deleted besides.

Side by side steps

  • If needed, you lot can reactivate a pay-as-yous-go subscription in the Azure portal.