Deleting idle cloud services
When we're developing systems, we may have a number of cloud services that we've finished working on and may be sitting idle for a period of time, so it's a good idea to delete them, as we're not paying for them to just sit there doing nothing.
We can delete a cloud service from the toolbar of a cloud service's workspace; however, we need to be careful to delete instances and not the full service, as we would lose our entire cloud service including the DNS name, which would require a completely new publishing profile and may cause configuration issues with other systems, relying on the allocated DNS name if someone else takes it, and we cannot use it again:
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