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Orphaned resources · Medium severity

Route 53 Health Check Failing

A health check is billed per check per month, and one that is permanently failing either takes an endpoint out of rotation that should be in it, or is watching something that no longer exists.

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AWSprovider
Mediumseverity
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: Fix or delete the failing Route 53 health check. 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
Route 53 Health Checks on AWS
The fix, by hand
  1. Confirm no DNS failover records depend on this health check.
  2. If the monitored endpoint was decommissioned, delete the health check to stop the $0.50/month standing fee.
  3. If the endpoint should be healthy, investigate and fix the underlying issue instead of deleting.

ZopNight does this for you after a guided review.

Category
Orphaned resources. Resources no longer attached to anything that needs them, such as unattached volumes and unassigned IPs.
Where it appears
The Savings tab of Recommendations, with every affected resource listed.
Rule ID
RC-1525
Full reference

Route 53 Health Check Failing

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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

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