title: What is the difference between an Azure Cloud Service Staging Slot and an Azure Web App Staging Slot?
body: <p>This question is also to do with why one gets charged double for Cloud Service instances, and I believe that the answer in my case is due to the fact that I have a Cloud Service Staging Slot which is actually a seperate VM whereas a WebSite Staging slot is just another website instance on the same VM, so you pay the same. </p>
  
  <p>So to pay for one Cloud Service instance ie around 700 hours in a month, one must only have the "Production" slot, the "Staging" slot must be deleted.</p>
  
  <p>Am I correct?</p>