Idle CloudFront Distribution
A distribution with no traffic carries no transfer charge but keeps its origins, behaviours and any attached certificate as live configuration nobody is reviewing.
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AWS
Found, explained, fixed.
Findings with a dollar figure attached, idle, oversized, orphaned, unscheduled and undiscounted spend.
Detect
ZopNight checks this automatically across AWS, with read-only access to the account.
Explain
Every finding says exactly what to change: Delete the idle CloudFront distribution. Where the saving can be proven it is priced; where it cannot, the finding says so.
Fix
After a guided review, where you confirm the change, ZopNight deletes the resource, then checks the change took.
- Applies to
- CloudFront Distributions on AWS
- The fix, by hand
- Verify the distribution is not needed by any application.
- Check if DNS records still point to this distribution.
- Disable the distribution first, then delete after confirming no impact.
- Remove associated S3 or ALB origins if also unused.
ZopNight does this for you after a guided review.
- 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-165- Full reference
Related checks
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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- $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.