Lets say I spin up a dedicated-cpu-4x(8gb) instance, stop it after one hour and leave it in that state. Will it continue to incur cost?

A vm that exists, even idle, will incur a cost. You can see if your app is using any vms using fly status. You’ll see some info with a table of vms like this. You pay for those vms. Instances ID PROCESS VERSION REGION DESIRED STATUS HEALTH CHECKS RESTARTS CREATED abcdefgh app 1 …

Does stopped VMs incur costs?

ignoramous June 24, 2022, 4:10pm 3

In my experience, these ops complete in a few seconds these days! Something has radically changed in Fly’s control plane. May be, that’s down to them overhauling the impl for machines?

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Does stopped VMs incur costs?

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