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Azure Orphan Resources

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Dolev_Shor
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Jun 12, 2022

Centralize orphaned resources in Azure environments

Orphaned resources are quite a common theme in Azure environments. The main purposes of deleting the orphaned resources are to save the cost of unused resources, prevent misconfiguration and simpli...
Updated Nov 12, 2024
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ShavezAli
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Jun 15, 2022

Hi Dolev_Shor,

 

Thanks for sharing the Workbook, its really helpful to find out the orphan Azure resources and save some cost by decommissioning them and also help to make the environment clean. I used it quickly and found few things that can be improved:

 

1- Orphan disks is also including the disks which are in ActiveSAS state, these are ASR replicated disks not unattached.

2- Orphan NICs is also including the NIC's which are assigned to NetApp storage