Should I remove Azure Bastion and how?

Christophe Aubert 0

Hello,

I have an azure bastion I don't know why. I believe I do not use it. The azure bastion page in azure portal tells me I cannot delete it because it is a third party application. I am billed more than 100 euros each month for this service. I only have a web app and do not use shell connection.

I would like to remove this bastion. How to know for which service it is used?

Thank you

Sam Cogan 10,762 Reputation points MVP

2024-10-03T08:03:47.4166667+00:00

You should be able to delete the bastion instance by just finding it in the portal and clicking the delete button. What is the error message you are getting?
Christophe Aubert 0 Reputation points

2024-10-03T11:06:03.07+00:00

Comment sent twice sorry...
Christophe Aubert 0 Reputation points

2024-10-03T11:09:09.6166667+00:00

Hello, thanks for your reply.

The message I have is "You can't delete this application because it's a Microsoft first party application. Learn more.".

It links to this page:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/azure/entra/entra-id/app-integration/troubleshoot-adding-apps#i-want-to-delete-an-application-but-the-delete-button-is-disabled

The delete button above is greyed out (disabled).
I believe this bastion was installed by some other resources, but I don't know which one.

Since this bastion costs a bit, I would like to remove it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you
KapilAnanth-MSFT 48,081 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2024-10-04T12:10:49.34+00:00
@Christophe Aubert ,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thank you for reaching out & I hope you are doing well.

Are you sure you are using an Azure Bastion PaaS Service or an Azure enterprise application that is co-incidentally named "Bastion" ?

Please refer to this thread : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1608602/unable-to-delete-enterprise-app-you-cant-delete-th

Can you please share the overview section's screenshot please? (like the one in the above thread)

A Bastion PaaS Service should be deletable by following "az network bastion delete" Commands or via the Portal

Cheers,

Kapil
Sander van de Velde | MVP 33,951 Reputation points MVP

2024-10-07T21:45:38.6933333+00:00

Hello @Christophe Aubert,

welcome to this moderated Azure community forum.

Azure Bastion is a service running in the background providing you secure access to Azure VMs. The service is always on so you basically pay for the compute power, waiting to be used.

You can delete Azure Bastion eg. using this method, by running a Automation runbook.

We used this to delete Bastion if it was running in the evening, just like stopping VMs at a certain time.

This way, we were sure it was deleted after we used it during the day.

The only disadvantage is that it take ~15 minutes to get a new Bastion.

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