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Rightsizing · Medium severity

EC2 Rightsizing

An instance bills for its type, so capacity the workload never reaches is billed at the same rate as capacity it does.

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AWSprovider
Mediumseverity
Savingswhere it shows up
Autofix, in one click

AWS

Found, explained, fixed.

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

01

Detect

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

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Change EC2 instance type. Where the saving can be proven it is priced; where it cannot, the finding says so.

03

Fix

In one click, ZopNight stops it, resizes it to the recommended tier, and starts it again, then checks the change took. When someone other than an admin starts a pause or a delete, an admin approves it first.

Applies to
EC2 Instances on AWS
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-003

Related checks

See the oversized resources in your account.

Connect a read-only role and the first pass runs on your own estate. This check, and the rest of the catalogue, with it.

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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.

Multi-cloud automation· Production-ready in 30 min· SOC 2 · ISO 27001· 20–60% off the bill, first month· 4 platforms · 1 console· Multi-cloud automation· Production-ready in 30 min· SOC 2 · ISO 27001· 20–60% off the bill, first month· 4 platforms · 1 console·