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Scheduling · Medium severity

Cluster Missing/Weak Auto-Termination

Without auto-termination a cluster keeps its workers running after the last job finishes, so the bill is set by when someone remembers to stop it.

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3clouds covered
Mediumseverity
Savingswhere it shows up
Manualfix, steps written out

AWSAzureGoogle CloudDatabricks

Found, explained, handed over.

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

01

Detect

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

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Tighten auto-termination on the Databricks cluster. 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
Databricks Cluster on AWS, Databricks Cluster on Azure, Databricks Cluster on Google Cloud
The fix, by hand on AWS
  1. Set 'Terminate after' to 10-120 minutes of inactivity.
  2. Enforce auto-termination defaults via a cluster policy.

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 IDs
RC-2201 RC-2301 RC-2401
Full reference

Cluster Missing/Weak Auto-Termination

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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.

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