Microsoft Azure

What are the Azure cost-saving plugins?

The Cloud Scanning product has a collection of plugins reporting unused services and misconfigurations that add unnecessary costs to your Azure account.

Here is the list of those plugins:

Advisor

  • Active Advisor Recommendations

Key Vaults

  • Key Vault Has Tags

Load Balancer

  • Load Balancer Has Tags
  • Application Gateway Has Tags

Redis Cache

Redis Cache Has Tags

MySQL Server

  • MySQL Server Has Tags

PostgreSQL Server

  • PostgreSQL Server Has Tags

Storage Accounts

  • Storage Account Has Tags

Virtual Networks

  • Route Table Has Tags

Virtual Networks

  • Virtual Network Has Tags

Kubernetes Service

  • AKS Cluster Has Tags

Virtual Machines

  • VM Disk Has Tags
  • Unattached Disk Volumes with Default Encryption
  • VM Instance Limit
  • VM Scale Set Has Tags
  • Guest Level Diagnostics Enabled
  • Premium SSD Disabled
  • No Unattached Disk Volumes
  • Snapshot Has Tags
  • VM Image Has Tags
  • No Empty Scale Sets
  • Virtual Machine Has Tags
  • Old VM Disk Snapshots
  • VM Availability Set Limit

Container Registry

  • ACR Has Tags

SQL Server

  • SQL Server Has Tags

Application Gateway

  • WAF Policy Has Tags

Cosmos DB

  • Cosmos DB Has Tags

Resource Group

  • Resource Group Has Tags

Subscription

  • PostgreSQL Server

Storage Accounts

  • Storage Account Has Tags

PostgreSQL Server

  • PostgreSQL Server Has Tags