Idle Load Balancer
An Elastic Load Balancer bills an hourly charge for as long as it exists, before any capacity unit is consumed.
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Found, explained, fixed.
Findings with a dollar figure attached, idle, oversized, orphaned, unscheduled and undiscounted spend.
Detect
ZopNight checks this automatically across AWS and Google Cloud, with read-only access to the account.
Explain
Every finding says exactly what to change: Delete idle load balancer. 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
- Load Balancers on AWS, Global LB on Google Cloud, Regional Load Balancers on Google Cloud
- The fix, by hand on AWS
- Verify no scheduled or seasonal traffic is expected.
- Check target groups for healthy targets.
- If confirmed idle, delete the load balancer and associated target groups.
- Update DNS records if applicable.
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 IDs
RC-012RC-122RC-1255- Full reference
Idle Load Balancer GKE Idle Load Balancer GCP Idle Global Load Balancer
Related checks
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- 550K+resources tracked since launch
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