# Idle Azure Storage Account | ZopNight

> The account bills for the data it stores whether or not anything reads it, and an account with no transactions is paying to keep data nobody has needed.

Source: https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/idle-azure-storage-account

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_Idle resources · Low severity_

## Idle Azure Storage Account

The account bills for the data it stores whether or not anything reads it, and an account with no transactions is paying to keep data nobody has needed.

- Azure — provider
- Low — severity
- Savings — where it shows up
- Guided — fix, after a review

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## Found, explained, fixed.

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: Delete idle storage account. Where the saving can be proven it is priced; where it cannot, the finding says so.
- 03. Fix — After a guided review, where you confirm the change, ZopNight deletes the resource, then checks the change took.

- applies_to_fallback: Any resource in the account
- where_it_appears: The Savings tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.

## Related

- [Azure Storage Account HTTPS Not Enforced](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/azure-storage-account-https-not-enforced)
- [Azure Storage Account Public Access Enabled](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/azure-storage-account-public-access-enabled)
- [Azure Storage Account Hot Tier with Low Access](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/azure-storage-account-hot-tier-with-low-access)
- [Azure Storage Account Not Using Customer-Managed Key Encryption](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/azure-storage-account-not-using-customer-managed-key-encryption)
- [Azure Dev/Test Storage Using GRS Replication](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/azure-dev-test-storage-using-grs-replication)
- [Azure Firewall Idle](https://zop.dev/zopnight/rules/azure-firewall-idle)

## See the idle 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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