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🛡️ AWS EBS Volume is underutilized🟢

• Contextual name: 🛡️ EBS Volume is underutilized🟢
• ID: /ce/ca/aws/ec2/ebs-volume-underutilized
• Tags:
  • 🟢 Policy with categories
  • 🟢 Policy with type
  • 🟢 Production policy
• Policy Type: COMPLIANCE_POLICY
• Policy Categories: COST, PERFORMANCE

Logic

• 🧠 prod.logic.yaml🟢
  • 📗 AWS EBS Volume
  • 🔌 AWS EBS Volume - object.extracts.yaml
  • 🧪 test-data.json

Description

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Description

This policy identifies AWS EBS volumes of type gp3, io1, and io2 that are underutilized based on their I/O operations over a 30-day period. A volume is considered underutilized if it is provisioned for high performance but exhibits low actual usage, indicating an opportunity for cost optimization.

Criteria and Thresholds:

• gp3 volumes:

  • Volumes provisioned with IOPS above the free baseline of 3,000.
  • Maximum theoretical operations per month for a 3,000 IOPS volume is 7,776,000,000 operations (calculated as 3,000 IOPS × 86,400 seconds/day × 30 days).
  • The threshold of 1,944,000,000 operations corresponds to one-quarter of the maximum, serving as a marker for low utilization.
  • Volumes below this threshold are considered good candidates to be downsized to the 3,000 IOPS baseline.

• io1 and io2 volumes:

  • Minimum provisioned IOPS for these volumes is 100 IOPS.
  • Maximum theoretical operations per month for a 100 IOPS volume is 259,200,000 operations (100 IOPS × 86,400 seconds/day × 30 days).

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Remediation

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Remediation

Before downsizing, review historical performance metrics to ensure the volume can safely operate at a lower IOPS. Modifying volumes may cause temporary I/O latency.

Downsize the Volume

aws ec2 modify-volume \
    --volume-id {{volume-id}} \
    --volume-type {{volume-type}} \
    --iops {{3000}}

Verify Performance After Downsizing

Monitor CloudWatch metrics to ensure the downsized volume continues to meet performance requirements.

policy.yaml

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Linked Framework Sections

Section	Sub Sections	Internal Rules	Policies	Flags	Compliance
💼 Cloudaware Framework → 💼 Resource Optimization			23		no data
💼 Cloudaware Framework → 💼 Workload Efficiency			24		no data