The tooling to investigate a potentially malicious event on an Azure Cloud VM is still in its infancy. We have covered before (Forensicating Azure VMs) how we can create a snapshot of the OS disk of a running VM. Snapshotting and then killing off the infected VM is very straight forward, but it also tips off an intruder that he has been found out. Sometimes, it makes sense to first watch for a while, and learn more, for example about compromised accounts, lateral movement, or other involved hosts.