Manage unused resources

Reduce cost by identifying the unused resources and scheduling jobs to power-off or terminate the unused resources.

You can configure Unused resources operations by selecting Settings.

Chart	Description
Total potential savings by service category	Total savings to expect if all Unused resources recommendations are applied by service category such as Compute, Database, and Storage.
Total potential savings by change group	Total savings to expect if all Unused resources recommendations are applied by change group such as Change Management and Application Development.

Recommendation tab	Description	Available actions on selected recommendations
New	Resources that are candidates for Unused resources. Each successful execution of a Billing Download job triggers the Budget Forecast, Business Hours, Reservation Plans, Rightsizing, and Unused resources jobs to analyze the spend and usage data of resources and to update the actionable recommendations in reports. 注: Microsoft Azure only: The Azure Advisor service generates the recommendations that appear in Rightsizing and Unused resources reports. Cloud Cost Management doesn’t generate the recommendations.	Schedule Exclude
Scheduled	Resources that are scheduled in Unused resources jobs.	Reschedule Remove from Job
Completed	Resources that the Unused resources job terminated or stopped.	None
Declined	Resources for which owners didn’t want to perform any action or declined the change request.	Reschedule Exclude
Failed	Resources for which the Unused resources operation wasn’t successful.	Reschedule Exclude 注: If you perform any action on the terminated or stopped virtual machines, the recommendations get completed but don't show up in the Failed recommendations tab.
Excluded	Resources that are configured not to be considered for Unused resources.	Remove from exclusion

表 : 1. Columns on the New, Scheduled, Declined, Completed, and Failed Recommendations tabs

Column	Description
Configuration item	Unique identifier of the resource.
Monthly savings	Potential savings if the resource is resized to the recommended size.
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.​
Current size	Size of the resource that was analyzed for.
Rationale	The reason that the system recommends terminating or stopping. AWS: Cloud Cost Management analysis of provisioning and usage levels over the last 14 days. Microsoft Azure: Recommendation from the Azure Advisor service.
Confidence	The confidence level in a recommendation. High confidence requires the following conditions: The system has at least 10 days of usage data for the resource. The current and recommended family or generation is identical. Medium confidence requires the following conditions: The system has less than 10 days of usage data for the resource. The current and recommended family or generation is identical. Low confidence: The current and recommended family/generation are different.
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.
Source	Source of the recommendations. AWS / Azure / GCP: Provider-generated recommendations ServiceNow: Custom-generated recommendations

• Configure Unused resources operations
  The Unused resources feature recommends termination or power-off for resources that are wasting money because they aren’t being used. Configure Unused resources processes and specify the potential savings that trigger notifications.
• Schedule unused resources to be powered off or terminated
  To terminate or power off an unused resource, add it to an Unused resources job, specify whether to terminate or power off, and specify when the job should run. You can also move resources from one scheduled job to a different job.
• Move a resource to a different Unused resources job
  You can add resources to a currently scheduled job, move resources from one job to another, or remove resources from a job.
• Exclude a resource from Unused resources analysis
  To ensure that a particular resource is not considered or recommended for Unused resources, add the resource to the Excluded Resources list. The system continues to collect cost and usage data but does not consider the resource for the processes of Unused resources.
• View or edit scheduled and completed Unused resources jobs
  View and manage the upcoming and completed Unused resources jobs.