Improve resource usage with Business hours

Improve resource usage and reduce your cloud spend by running resources during the specified business hours.

Use the Business hours recommendation page to:

• Manage Business hours processes.
• Configure Business hours operations by selecting Settings.
• Define or update Business hours processes

Chart	Description
Total potential savings by service category	Total savings to expect if all Business hours recommendations are applied by service category such as Compute and Database.
Total potential savings by change group	Total savings to expect if all Business hours recommendations are applied by change group such as Change Management and Application Development.
Business hr vs. Non-business hr spend	Spend for resources during business hours against non-business hours.

Tab	Description	Available action on selected recommendations
New	Resources that are candidates for applying Business hours processes.	Exclude
Scheduled	Resources that are tagged to have business hours enforced.	None
Declined	Resources for which owners (or other approver) didn’t want to enforce business hours (rejected the change request).	Exclude
Failed	Resources for which the attempt to enforce business hours failed.	Exclude
Report-only	Resources that match Report-only policies.	Exclude
Excluded	Resources that are configured not to be considered for business hours. Important: After an Unused resources job powers off a machine, the machine is added to the Excluded Resources list for Business Hours. This process ensures that the resource isn't started again in the future because it matches a Business hours policy. The exclusion reason on the Business hours Excluded tab indicates that the resource is an unused resource.	Remove from exclusion

Table 1. Columns on the New, Scheduled, Declined, Failed, and Report-only Recommendations tabs

Column	Description
Configuration item	Unique identifier of the resource.
Predicted monthly savings	Predicted savings if the Business hours recommendations are applied.
Provider	The provider that hosts the resource.
Service category	Lists all service categories from the instance sorted by name.
Cloud service	Lists all cloud categories sorted by  name.​
Policy	The Business hours policy that the resource matches to.
Policy type	Type of the Business hours policy that the resource matches to.
Change request	Change request that is associated with the recommendation.
Change Group	Change group for the resource.
Account	The service account that includes the resource. A service account represents a group of related regions in your provider account.
Region	If appropriate for the provider, region in the service account that hosts the resource.
Owned by	Owner of the resource.
Failure type	This column appears only for the Failed tab. Reason for which the change request wasn’t generated or the specified business hours weren’t applied to the resource.
Details	This column appears only for the Failed tab. Details of the failure type and the action that you must take to resolve the failure.

• Configure Business hours operations
  You can choose to use or to disable Business Hours features and specify the amount of non-business hour spend that triggers notifications to users or groups. Controlling unnecessary resource use can help reduce costs.
• Create Business hours schedule
  Create and apply a Business hours schedule to the cloud resources for enforcing the on/off schedule.
• Define or update a Business hours policy
  A Business hours job applies policies to identify resources that are running when they should be powered off, reports them, and can start and stop them on a schedule that you specify. Running only during specified business hours can significantly reduce your cloud spend.