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Idle resources · Low severity

Idle VPC Interface Endpoint

An interface endpoint bills per hour per availability zone it is provisioned in, whether or not any request uses it.

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AWSprovider
Lowseverity
Savingswhere it shows up
Guidedfix, after a review

AWS

Found, explained, fixed.

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: Delete the idle VPC interface endpoint. 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
VPC Endpoints on AWS
The fix, by hand
  1. Open CloudWatch → VPC Endpoint → BytesProcessed metric.
  2. If zero bytes processed over 30 days, the endpoint is idle.
  3. Verify no application is configured to use this endpoint.
  4. Delete the endpoint from the VPC console.
  5. Update security groups and route tables if needed.

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-095
Full reference

Idle VPC Interface Endpoint

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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·