Hi!

Your AKS workloads may not need to run continuously, for example a development cluster that has node pools running specific workloads. To optimize your costs, you can completely turn off (stop) your node pools in your AKS cluster, allowing you to save on compute costs.

Stop an AKS Node Pool:

az aks nodepool stop --nodepool-name testnodepool --resource-group myResourceGroup --cluster-name myAKSCluster

Start an AKS Node Pool:

az aks nodepool start --nodepool-name testnodepool --resource-group myResourceGroup --cluster-name myAKSCluster

Maxime.