Azure Analysis Services scheduled autoscaling and pausing
One of the major benefits of Azure is scalability, the cloud is built to be elastic, to be as cost-effective as possible. Azure solutions can be scaled in ways that would never be possible with your own hardware. You are able to scale up and out when the demand arises, and more importantly you can scale down and in, or even pause, when you don’t need all the resources anymore, thereby saving a lot of money.
Autoscaling based on a schedule allows you to scale your solution according to predictable resource demand. For example you could require the highest capacity on Monday during peak hours, while the rest of the week the traffic is decreased allowing you to scale down and minimizing costs. Outside business hours and during weekends you could then pause the service, after which no charges will be applied at all.