Comments on: Cloud Vampires https://thomaslarock.com/2018/11/cloud-vampires/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Sun, 25 Nov 2018 22:04:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Thomas LaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2018/11/cloud-vampires/#comment-43508 Sun, 25 Nov 2018 22:04:04 +0000 https://thomaslarock.com/?p=19375#comment-43508 In reply to Katy Stalcup.

Yes!

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By: Katy Stalcup https://thomaslarock.com/2018/11/cloud-vampires/#comment-43400 Fri, 16 Nov 2018 14:44:45 +0000 https://thomaslarock.com/?p=19375#comment-43400 Great list! One more zombie type – instances that are sometimes used, but sometimes idle! Especially dev/test/staging that are used during the workday, but idle nights and weekends. Get some garlic for those.

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By: Rémi BOURGAREL https://thomaslarock.com/2018/11/cloud-vampires/#comment-43371 Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:03:58 +0000 https://thomaslarock.com/?p=19375#comment-43371 You can identify them by finding ressource with a non-zero fixed cost (storage, licence …) and a null usage-based cost (IO, query, bandwidth) : when on a storage account if you are billed for data storage but not for IO, you might be able to remove the account. I found in Azure that there is a lot of account storage created automaticaly by other ressources (such as load balancer) and stay around even when the original ressource is removed. It doesn’t cost a lot but after a few years of using Azure it can be a few bucks

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