Ensure that a "Not Allowed Resource Types" policy is assigned to your Azure subscriptions in order to deny deploying restricted resources within your Azure cloud account for security and compliance purposes. Microsoft Azure Policy service allows you to enforce organizational standards and assess cloud compliance at-scale. With Azure Policy you can define, assign, and manage...Read More
Check Azure Cloud Budget monthly alerts is configured in your Azure subscriptions. When you set it properly, it will help to alert you when you exceed your budgeted threshold.Read More
Identify any empty virtual machine scale sets available within your Microsoft Azure cloud account. A Microsoft Azure virtual machine scale set is considered empty when it doesn't have any VM instances attached anymore and is no longer associated with a load balancer.Read More
Ensure that all purchased AWS EC2 Reserved Instances (RI) applied to AWS billing properly. With Standard RI type, verify running On-Demand Instances must match the instance type, Availability Zone, platform, and tenancy of your RI exactly.Read More
Identify and consider to resize any EC2 instances with low CPU utilization. The average CPU utilization has been between 1% and 40% for the last 7 days.Read More
We are frequently asked about the impact of instance scheduling on AWS Reserved Instances for EC2 and RDS. Scheduling On Demand instances as well as Reserved Instances (RIs) are both useful techniques for cost optimization, but they are polar opposites in terms of goals.Read More
