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Most of the Azure Hosted Companies are having a challenge with the basic SKU public IP address VPN Gateway Migration. This article will give you an update on how to migrate the VPN Gateway's Basic SKU public IP address to Standard SKU without changing the IP address. 

Step 4: If validation is successful and traffic flows as expected, click Commit and Commit changes to finalize the migration.

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 Cost report for Each Azure Virtual Machine

To manage costs, you can use cost analysis. For a more in-depth review, filtering options allow you to view expenses by specific codes on a daily or monthly basis. This is the simplest way to explore expenses. In this article, we'll learn how to check the cost of each instance on Azure.

Step 1: In the Azure Portal, navigate to the subscription for which you want to analyze the cost.

 Step 2: In the Cost Management section, click on Cost Analysis.

 Step 3: In the Cost Analysis, choose the Invoice date using the Invoice.

 Step 4: In the Cost analysis interface, click on the + Add filter. Set the Resource type filter to "Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines". In the Cost Management section, click on Cost Analysis.

Step 5: Under Group by, select Resource, and select Monthly on the Granularity.

Step 6: Click Download, select Excel, and click Download data.

Step 7: To check the cost on the Azure portal using a table view, choose Table.

Step 8: We can see the table view and check the general cost.

Step 9: If we need to expand the individual cost, click the drop-down.

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Microsoft has announced that the Basic SKU public IPs will be retired On September 30, 2025; if you are currently using the Basic SKU IPs in your environment, it is better to upgrade them as soon as possible. When you upgrade the VMs Public IP, the IP address will never change, so the upgrading won't affect your working environment.

This process requires a maximum of 3-5 minutes of downtime, but based on your environment, the downtime will change.

If your Basic SKU Public IP is attached to the VPN / ExpressRoute Gateway, you must recreate the Gateway at that time. The IP will change, so the remote device should change the new IP.

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