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Find idle Azure resources and what they cost each month

Idle virtual machines, unattached disks and unused public IP addresses add to the Azure bill. See each one with its estimated monthly cost, then decide.

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Notes

  • EtherInsights estimates each resource's monthly cost from the last 30 days of Azure cost data and Azure retail prices. The sample figures are Azure pay-as-you-go list prices, 730 hours a month (UK South for £, East US for $).
  • Low use alone never makes a resource safe to delete.

Chapters

  1. 0:00Idle Azure resources still bill every month
  2. 0:12Disks, IP addresses and the one total that hides them
  3. 0:28Identify idle resources and their monthly cost
  4. 0:43Read-only, and a PDF for the owner
  5. 0:57Put the budget back into your services

Transcript

  1. 0:02Every month, an idle Azure resource can add another cost to the bill.
  2. 0:07A virtual machine that is stopped but still billed.
  3. 0:12A disk with no machine attached.
  4. 0:16A public IP address you no longer need.
  5. 0:21Finance sees one total. The idle items sit inside it, unnamed.
  6. 0:28EtherInsights identifies those resources and shows their monthly cost, so your team can decide what to clean up first.
  7. 0:37Start with the one that costs most. Your team decides what happens next.
  8. 0:43It's read-only by default, with nothing to install.
  9. 0:47Export a PDF with every resource, its resource ID and its estimated monthly cost, for the person who owns it.
  10. 0:57Put that budget back into the services your people use.
  11. 1:02Try EtherInsights free for fourteen days on your own tenant.