🛡️ Azure Savings Plan expired in the last 30 days🟢

• Contextual name: 🛡️ Savings Plan expired in the last 30 days🟢
• ID: /ce/ca/azure/savings-plan/expired-in-last-30-days
• Tags:
  • 🟢 Policy with categories
  • 🟢 Policy with type
  • 🟢 Production policy
• Policy Type: COMPLIANCE_POLICY
• Policy Categories: COST

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Logic

• 🧠 prod.logic.yaml🟢
  • 📗 Azure Savings Plan
  • 🔌 Azure Savings Plan - object.extracts.yaml
  • 🧪 test-data.json

Description

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Description

Review Azure Savings Plans that expired during the previous 30 days to confirm that the expiration was intentional and that the covered compute usage has an appropriate pricing commitment.

Rationale

Azure Savings Plans provide discounted pricing in exchange for a commitment to an hourly spend on eligible compute services. When a plan expires, eligible usage reverts to pay-as-you-go pricing unless another commitment applies. Reviewing recent expirations helps FinOps and workload owners identify missed renewals and decide whether replacement coverage remains cost effective.

Impact

An unintended expiration can increase compute costs and reduce forecast accuracy. Purchasing a replacement without reviewing current usage, scope, and term can instead create unused commitment. This policy does not recommend an automatic purchase; each result requires an owner review.

Audit

The policy marks an Azure Savings Plan as INCOMPLIANT when its Provisioning State is Succeeded, its Expiry Date Time is before the current UTC day, and that date falls within the preceding 30 days.

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Remediation

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Remediation

1. Confirm with the workload owner and FinOps team that the Savings Plan expiration was intentional.
2. In the Azure portal, open Cost Management + Billing and select Savings plans to review the expired plan, eligible usage, and cost impact.
3. Compare current eligible compute demand, the intended scope, term, and hourly commitment with the available pricing options.
4. If replacement coverage is justified, purchase a new Savings Plan with the approved scope and commitment. Azure Savings Plans are not renewed in place.
5. Configure advance-expiry monitoring and assign an owner so the commitment can be reviewed before its next expiry date.

policy.yaml

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Linked Framework Sections

Section	Sub Sections	Internal Rules	Policies	Flags	Compliance
💼 Cloudaware Framework → 💼 Resource Optimization			37		no data