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Scheduling · Medium severity

Azure SQL Could Use Serverless Tier

A provisioned database is billed for its vCores continuously; serverless bills for the seconds it is actually active and pauses when it is not.

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Azureprovider
Mediumseverity
Savingswhere it shows up
Manualfix, steps written out

Azure

Found, explained, handed over.

Findings with a dollar figure attached, idle, oversized, orphaned, unscheduled and undiscounted spend.

01

Detect

ZopNight checks this automatically across Azure, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Move the SQL database to the serverless tier. Where the saving can be proven it is priced; where it cannot, the finding says so.

03

Fix

The finding opens with the fix already written out, step by step, so it is one ticket, not an investigation.

Applies to
SQL Databases on Azure
The fix, by hand
  1. Open Portal → SQL databases → the resource → Compute + storage.
  2. Switch the Compute tier from Provisioned to Serverless. Pick min/max vCores that bracket your observed CPU range.
  3. Set Auto-pause delay (≥60 minutes). Confirm clients have retry logic that tolerates the cold-start.
  4. Apply. Monitor Query Performance Insight for cold-start latency over the next week.

These are the steps the finding carries in the product.

Category
Scheduling. Resources running 24x7 with a clear off-hours usage pattern, ready for start and stop scheduling.
Where it appears
The Savings tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule ID
RC-1335
Full reference

Azure SQL Dev/Test Could Use Serverless Tier

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