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Allow changing Billing Model for ExpressRoute from Unlimited to Metered with no downtime

Currently you can change an ExpressRoute from Metered to Unlimited at any time without any disruption.

You should also have the ability to go from Unlimited to Metered at any time without any disruption.

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  • Wolfgang Krause commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    ooh... Just found this tread... Seems like a indecent, almost fraudulent behaviour by Microsoft.
    I inherited an Azure environment, and worked out we are only using $23 out of the $1,700 the unlimited plan is costing us each month.

    Since the Expressroute is in production and it's provided by the Telco CSP it seems like a huge and unnecessary risk to the business to decommission this... So we will likely continue to be conned by Microsoft. Very annoying.

  • Manoj Palani commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We want to change our billing plan from unmetered to metered looks like the only way to do it is deleting the circuit and which will cause downtime. Hope, Microsoft can come up with seamless backend changes instead of deleting/recreating the circuit

  • Mile Petrov commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Unless there is valid reason not to, I’d like to see the option to change the billing model from Unlimited to Metered with no downtime.
    Please note that excuse such as “computer says no” without reasonable explanation wouldn’t be acceptable and it would rather be annoying.

  • Paul Hundal commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    If you can make change to increase the service, it seems in reasonable that
    that to go from Unlimited to Metered change the pricing plan from unlimited to metered by deleting the circuit under the unlimited pricing plan, and re-creating it under the metered pricing plan”.

    Ideally we would be able to do this without any disruption or outage but unacceptable that have to delete and create which involves working with our Telco provider

  • Phil commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I need to change the express route from unlimited to metered?
    How can I do this with no down time?

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