Azure subscription states
This article describes the various states that an Azure subscription might have. The following subscription states appear as Status in Azure portal subscription areas.
Active/Enabled
Your Azure subscription is active. You can use the subscription to deploy new resources and manage existing ones.
All operations (PUT, PATCH, DELETE, POST, GET) are available for the resource providers that are registered for your subscription.
Deleted
Your Azure subscription was deleted along with all underlying resources/data.
No operations are available.
Disabled
Your Azure subscription is disabled and can no longer be used to create or manage Azure resources. While in this state, your virtual machines are deallocated, temporary IP addresses are freed, storage is read-only and other services are disabled. A subscription can get disabled because of the following reasons:
- Your credit expired.
- You reached your spending limit.
- Your bill is past due.
- Your credit card limit was exceeded. Or, it was explicitly disabled or canceled. Depending on the subscription type, a subscription might remain disabled between 1 - 90 days. After which, it gets permanently deleted. For more information, see Reactivate a disabled Azure subscription.
Operations to create or update resources (PUT, PATCH) are disabled. Operations that take an action (POST) are also disabled. Your resources are still available, so you can retrieve or delete them (GET, DELETE). Transferring ownership of the subscription is disabled.
Expired
Your Azure subscription is expired because it was canceled. You can reactivate an expired subscription. For more information, see Reactivate a disabled Azure subscription.
Operations to create or update resources (PUT, PATCH) are disabled. Operations that take an action (POST) are also disabled. You can retrieve or delete resources (GET, DELETE).
Past Due
Your Azure subscription has an outstanding payment pending. Your subscription is still active but failure to pay the dues might result in subscription being disabled. For more information, see Resolve past due balance for your Azure subscription.
All operations are available.
Warned
Your Azure subscription is in a warned state. If the warning isn't addressed, the subscription gets disabled. A subscription might be in warned state if its past due, canceled by a user, or if the subscription expired.
You can retrieve or delete resources (GET/DELETE), but you can't create any resources (PUT/PATCH/POST).
Resources in this state go offline but can be recovered when the subscription resumes an active/enabled state. A subscription in this state isn't charged.