Cloud Service Billing Question

We are in the process of creating some Virtual Machines in Microsoft Azure. We will only be using Virtual Machines in Azure and none of the programming or other hosting features. When you create a virtual machine, you must create a Cloud
Service, or specify one that you've already created.
So really I have 2 questions:
1. Will I be billed for this Cloud Service AND a VM? My understanding is that the cloud service is a only container for the virtual machines.
2. If I am being billed, how do I know the size of the Cloud Service that I deployed? There is no option to select a size, but all the pricing information I can find on Cloud Services requires that I specify a size (A1, A2, D3, etc).
Any information at all would be very helpful. Thanks

Hi,
First, we need to know the difference between cloud service and Azure VM, here is an article:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/plankytronixx/archive/2014/04/24/i-m-confused-between-azure-cloud-services-and-azure-vms-what-the.aspx, hope it helps.
As far as I know, the cloud service contains two types of instance: web role and worker role, each role could contains multiple instances, the computers (Windows Servers) that lived in these Roles were known as “instances”. So, you could think of the instance
as a "Virtual Machine", for example, your cloud service has one web role with two instances A0, you will be charge $22*2/mo (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/cloud-services/),
you could also find these pricing information from azure VM pricing (Standard tier) (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/), as my first
post, you will not be charged twice, please note:  Cloud Services now offers two hardware options for web and worker roles: A-series and D-series.
More detail about instance sizes.
Best Regards,
Jambor
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