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Scheduling · Medium severity

Idle EMR Cluster

An EMR cluster bills for every node for as long as it runs, and a cluster between jobs is paying full rate for a workload that ended.

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AWSprovider
Mediumseverity
Savingswhere it shows up
Manualfix, steps written out

AWS

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, with read-only access to the account.

02

Explain

Every finding says exactly what to change: Schedule the idle EMR cluster off-hours. 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
EMR Clusters on AWS
The fix, by hand
  1. Enable an EMR auto-termination idle timeout so the cluster stops automatically after no active steps.
  2. Or apply the recommended off-hours start/stop schedule.
  3. Prefer transient clusters (auto-terminate after the job) for batch workloads.
  4. Only terminate the cluster manually after confirming it is permanently abandoned.

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 ID
RC-051
Full reference

Idle EMR Cluster

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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·