Software Design

Cloud VM Lifecycle: Managing Cloud Infrastructure Costs

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State diagram showing Cloud VM lifecycle: Provisioning, Running, Stopping, Stopped, Snapshotting, and Terminated states.
State diagram showing Cloud VM lifecycle: Provisioning, Running, Stopping, Stopped, Snapshotting, and Terminated states.
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What it shows

  • Provisioning assigns compute nodes and attaches network interfaces
  • Stopped instances release CPUs but maintain EBS storage billing
  • Terminated state detaches volumes and returns IPs to the public pool

The takeaway

To eliminate cloud costs completely, delete attached block storage along with the VM.

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