Thanks for this article. We are in exactly the same scenario as you, and deeply confused about the point of Reserved Units, being that they cost when they are on, and don’t auto turn-on/off when not being used. Going to be using this code snippet to do the same operation as you to turn on premium when we have assets and reset back to basic when not being used so incur no costs.

You might want to add that once you sign an assembly A, you’ll need to sign all the dependencies referenced by A, which need to be compiled.

Thank you sir.

Thanks for the description and code snippet.

But is your solution still valid ? Based on the docs, cost is incurred only when you actually submit work to MES, not when it is sitting idle:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-au/azure/media-services/previous/media-services-scale-media-processing-overview#billing

Has the billing model changed since you wrote this blog post ?

Thanks

Thanks, and thanks for your help on this Ram.