~$ az vm stop --resource-group MeineRG --name MeineVM
About to power off the specified VM...
It will continue to be billed. To deallocate a VM, run: az vm deallocate. 

~$ az vm get-instance-view --resource-group MeineRG --name MeineVM \
    --output table
Name     ResourceGroup  Location     ProvisioningState  PowerState
-------  -------------  -----------  -----------------  ------------
MeineVM  MeineRG        northeurope  Succeeded          VM stopped
