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Idle resources · Medium severity

GCP Vertex AI Feature Store Idle

The feature store bills for the data it holds and the nodes it keeps ready, whether or not any pipeline reads from it.

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Google Cloudprovider
Mediumseverity
Savingswhere it shows up
Manualfix, steps written out

Google Cloud

Found, explained, handed over.

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

01

Detect

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

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Scale the idle Vertex AI featurestore to zero nodes. 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
Vertex AI Feature Stores on Google Cloud
The fix, by hand
  1. Confirm no application reads online features from this store.
  2. Scale online-serving node count to zero, or delete the Feature Store if unused.

These are the steps the finding carries in the product.

Category
Idle resources. Resources running but doing no useful work: zero invocations, no connections, no traffic.
Where it appears
The Savings tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule ID
RC-1216
Full reference

GCP Vertex AI Feature Store Idle

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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·