Azure Free Credits for Mining Monero/Other CN-Coins. Super-Easy&Super-Profitable

[serhanni]

Thank you very much for the script, i will definitely try with nimiq

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

Hi everybody,

FYI: apparently azure has increased the price for the F-instances. If you have a MSDN Enterprise subscription, your free credits will only be enough to run 9 instances (for a total of 18 cores) instead of the previously 10 instances. For MSDN Professional still 3 instances are possible.

If you have run out of free credits, azure will delete your pools. You'll have to re-setup your pools (just use 9 instances instead of previously 10).

[narakross]

i have a problem, i not have subscription.
if i want to start mining.

East US
Linux
Ubuntu
D2 V3 2 vCPU  8 GB Ram 50GB storage ----> 0.019 USD/hour

10 virtual machine X 730 hours  ----> 138.70 USD

Standar HDD S4 32 Gib 1.536 USD/Month

Storage transactions 100 x $0.0005 ----> $0.05

TOTAL -->  $138.75

if i purchase this.

how much hash i made to pay and get some gain?

Will the current configuration of script monero give good results?

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

i have a problem, i not have subscription.
...

Sorry, mining with azure is only profitable if you have free credits from e.g. a MSDN-subscription. If you have to pay for the VMs you will lose money. With the current market situation, you'll make maybe 20$ in cryptocurrency if you spend 100$ for azure-vms (the exact numbers depend on the current exchange-rates and which coin you mine).


 

[Cyberpunk77]

i have a problem, i not have subscription.
...

Sorry, mining with azure is only profitable if you have free credits from e.g. a MSDN-subscription. If you have to pay for the VMs you will lose money. With the current market situation, you'll make maybe 20$ in cryptocurrency if you spend 100$ for azure-vms (the exact numbers depend on the current exchange-rates and which coin you mine).


 

Thank you so much for script.
I just wanted to ask that I'm getting less than 10$ for 100 azure credits. Is it normal? Following your guide f2, us east, xmr mining.
What coins do you suggest for best payout?
Thanks.

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

Thank you so much for script.
I just wanted to ask that I'm getting less than 10$ for 100 azure credits. Is it normal? Following your guide f2, us east, xmr mining.
What coins do you suggest for best payout?
Thanks.

Unfortunately altcoin-prices are very low right now, so profitability is very bad.
You can check https://www.cryptunit.com for other coins...
Personally, I mine xmr, even if sometimes other coins would yield a higher dollar-value (after all, xmr is one of the top-altcoins).
Otherwise, I am also mining banano - profitability is equally bad, but I find mining it is more fun than xmr
See https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Run_Folding_At_Home_in_the_Azure_Cloud.html for more info about mining banano.

[RapidooX]

thanks for the script op

i just run you script on gcloud (this i my first day on mining world so i am a total newbie) with 2 instance (24cores+8cores) and get 600h/s+250h/s is this normal

and for azure what is your average h/s on 20 cores (1 pool) because after 10 hours mine is between 750h/s and 900h/s

sorry for my bad english

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

thanks for the script op

i just run you script on gcloud (this i my first day on mining world so i am a total newbie) with 2 instance (24cores+8cores) and get 600h/s+250h/s is this normal

For best results you should use instances with less cores, e.g. 2 or 4 cores per instance.

nd for azure what is your average h/s on 20 cores (1 pool) because after 10 hours mine is between 750h/s and 900h/s

sorry for my bad english

900 h\s is at the lower range... But there's always some fluctuation. Did you use the settings described in the guide?

By the way, it sounds like you're using trial accounts - please don't do that, it's just  not worthwhile. You really need a msdn account if you want to use the script.

[RapidooX]

900 h\s is at the lower range... But there's always some fluctuation. Did you use the settings described in the guide?

By the way, it sounds like you're using trial accounts - please don't do that, it's just  not worthwhile. You really need a msdn account if you want to use the script.

- but why it's not worthwhile ,i mean both have similer profits (if you have 9 free trial or 18 student accounts) ,or there is other problems ?
- for the settings i use the (f2/2 cores/4GB) and today i get :
  west us 2 around 600h/s (24h average) with different combination of pool cores (2,2,2,2,2/4,4,2/5,5/10)
  north central us , north europe , east us around 800h/s (24h average )
- for the gcloud they quickly torn off my instances

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

- but why it's not worthwhile ,i mean both have similer profits (if you have 9 free trial or 18 student accounts) ,or there is other problems ?
- for the settings i use the (f2/2 cores/4GB) and today i get :
  west us 2 around 600h/s (24h average) with different combination of pool cores (2,2,2,2,2/4,4,2/5,5/10)
  north central us , north europe , east us around 800h/s (24h average )
- for the gcloud they quickly torn off my instances

If your instances get shut down, it's a good sign that you are violating the ToS and you should probably stop what you are doing.
About the trial-accounts: of course you could keep on creating new trial accounts with fake identities. But is this really the way you want to do it? If you think about it a little you also must come to the conclusion that this is bad for your karma.

And about the hashrate: Azure has different types of CPUs in different regions. Also the actual performance depends on the cpu-usage of the VMs of other customers running on the same CPU (the script has a function to recalibrate itself to get the best hashrate). So there are some reasons for the fluctuation. When i created the script i did some experiments and got best results with the "east us"-region and f2 instances. Of course, it would be nice if you can post here if you find better settings.

[ronnieb]

are you prepared for the RandomX fork?

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

are you prepared for the RandomX fork?

Yeah, i'm aware of the fork and i am currently working on finding the optimal settings for mining with azure.

[ronnieb]

Is monero the most profitable thing to mine with azure right now or are there more profitable alternatives?

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

Profitability right now is generally bad... if the past is any indication for the future then things will change with the next altcoin-season after the upcoming bitcoin-halving.
Otherwise my favorite profit-calculator is https://www.cryptunit.com/, you can have a look at the numbers there.

[ronnieb]

I was able to start running mine with no issues. But my buddy got shut down in 4 hrs into it and be basically followed the same steps I did.

Is there any other ways to prevent MS from seeing these batches as violations?

[YuSoDum]

Thank you for this, I just stumbled my way thru it a few hours ago. So far so good, I decided on 16 instances - averaging 108h.

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

I was able to start running mine with no issues. But my buddy got shut down in 4 hrs into it and be basically followed the same steps I did.

Is there any other ways to prevent MS from seeing these batches as violations?

I don't recommend mining with free credits from trial-accounts.
With that being said: If you enter your credit-card details and deactivate the spending-limit your VMs won't get shut down. You just have to remember to switch off everything before your free credits run out (your free credits will still work after deactivating the spending-limit).

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

Thank you for this, I just stumbled my way thru it a few hours ago. So far so good, I decided on 16 instances - averaging 108h.

You're welcome 

[getdemall]

Azure has blocked this feature....

Is there anyway to make it work on AWS or google cloud?

[MATHReX]

Azure has blocked this feature....

Is there anyway to make it work on AWS or google cloud?

Even in AWS or Google Cloud, you'll face issues like suspended account due to violation of terms.
I did try it on AWS for a week with some free credit during promotion a while back and the account was suspended just after a few hours and requiring a mail to re-activate the account but I was sure they won't reactivate it.
Moreover, migration to RandomX algorithm will bring a wave of CPU miners to XMR network and we will see many users trying to use on-demand computing platforms for it and their accounts getting suspended in no time.