Requirement
In Azure Free Account, you will get $200 for 30 days to use the services. But still, it will ask to add a payment while creating a free account. In this post, we will see how to remove/delete the card from the Azure Free Account.
Note: Azure will not charge you until you consume all the free fund amount for the services.
Solution
Step 1: Login
Go to portal.azure.com
Step2: Cost Management
Go to Cost Management from the left bar. Once the page opens, click in the Payment Method.
You will see your card details. Just click on the Delete option.
Once you click on the delete option, it will validate and then give the message shown above
The selected payment method can’t be deleted because it’s in use in the following locations. To delete this payment method, complete the following actions.
So, you can not delete this payment option until you either add a payment or delete the subscription which is tagged with this payment.
Step 3: Cancel & Delete Subscription
You can review the subscription and the resources under that. I have clicked o ignore and cancel. It will ask the subscription name for the confirmation and Reason for cancellation.
You can review the subscription and the resources under that. I have clicked o ignore and cancel. It will ask the subscription name for the confirmation and Reason for cancellation.
You can review the subscription cancellation from the subscription page. It should be in the Disabled state.
Once it got disable, go to subscription and you will see a delete option.
As per the below message, it takes another 3 days to enable the delete operation on the subscription.
Wrapping Up
In this post, we have seen how to delete the payment method in Azure Free Account.