Azure DDoS Protection Plan Cost Review
A DDoS Network Protection plan bills a fixed monthly charge that covers a set number of public IPs, so a plan protecting far fewer resources than it is priced for is paying for coverage nobody is using.
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Found, explained, handed over.
Findings with a dollar figure attached, idle, oversized, orphaned, unscheduled and undiscounted spend.
Detect
ZopNight checks this automatically across Azure, with read-only access to the account.
Explain
Every finding says exactly what to change: Review the DDoS protection plan. Where the saving can be proven it is priced; where it cannot, the finding says so.
Fix
The finding opens with the fix already written out, step by step, so it is one ticket, not an investigation.
- Applies to
- DDoS Protection Plans on Azure
- The fix, by hand
- Review which VNets are protected by this DDoS plan.
- If none reference it, delete the plan to eliminate the fixed charge.
- DDoS IP Protection (~$199/mo/IP) may be cheaper for plans protecting few public IPs, but requires manual verification of the actual protected public IP count.
These are the steps the finding carries in the product.
- Category
- Rightsizing. Resources sized for headroom they never use. A smaller size runs the same workload for less.
- Where it appears
- The Savings tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
- Rule ID
RC-1366- Full reference
Related checks
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- $30M+annualised cloud spend under management
- 550K+resources tracked since launch
- 20-60%off the bill in the first month
- SOC 2Type II report, plus ISO 27001
Figures published on zop.dev.