Network · 35 checks
Unused network plumbing you're billed for hourly.
Networking resources are easy to leave behind and bill relentlessly by the hour: an Elastic IP not attached to anything, a NAT Gateway in an AZ you no longer use, a load balancer for a service that's been decommissioned.
Graymole finds idle and orphaned load balancers, gateways, endpoints, and addresses across every region, on AWS, GCP, and Azure alike, including standouts like Azure DDoS protection plans guarding zero VNets at roughly $2,944/month.
Where the money is
- Unattached Elastic IPs now bill hourly: a small charge that multiplies across accounts.
- Idle NAT Gateways and load balancers cost the same whether they carry traffic or not.
- Unused VPC endpoints, Transit Gateway attachments, and Global Accelerators bill for nothing.
- Removing orphaned health checks and distributions trims the long tail of network spend.
~$390/yr
A single idle NAT Gateway runs about $32/month plus data processing, and they're often duplicated per AZ and per region.
What we check
A representative sample: Network has 35 checks in total across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Unattached Elastic IPs
Reserved IPs not associated with anything, billing hourly.
Unattached Azure public IPs
Static public IPs pointing at nothing, billing monthly.
Azure DDoS plans with zero VNets
~$2,944/month for a protection plan guarding nothing.
NAT Gateways with low traffic
Hourly + data charges for near-zero throughput.
Idle Application Load Balancers
ALBs with no targets or requests.
CloudFront unused distributions
Distributions serving no requests.
VPC endpoints unused
Interface endpoints billing per-hour for no use.
Transit Gateway attachments unused
Attachments with no traffic flowing through.
Route 53 orphaned health checks
Health checks for endpoints that no longer exist.
Direct Connect ports under-utilized
Dedicated capacity far above what you push.
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