Preparing this Costframe view
Preparing this Costframe viewA load balancer may be idle when backend pools, health, flows, and workload context show it no longer serves a live path. Empty pools are stronger evidence than low traffic, but neither automatically proves deletion is safe.
Network + application owner should review this finding before remediation because ownership, dependency, and rollback context often live outside billing data.
Costframe requires read-only billing, resource inventory, and relevant metric access. Missing permissions lower confidence and are shown as limitations.
Review cadence: Monthly. Cost and inventory freshness can differ; stale or unavailable evidence must not be treated as a verified saving.
Confidence increases when cost, inventory, utilization, and provider metadata agree. Contradictions or missing telemetry require manual owner review.
Do not quantify savings when billing scope is incomplete, pricing basis is unavailable, utilization evidence is stale, or the resource is part of a planned migration or disaster-recovery design.
A finding is ready only when owner, evidence, risk checks, rollback, approval, and post-change verification are known. Costframe does not execute provider writes.
01 · Cause
02 · Evidence contract
Evidence sources and freshness depend on provider availability, granted read-only permissions, completed audits, and the specific resource type. Missing data lowers confidence; it is not silently converted into a pass.
03 · False-positive review
These conditions lower confidence or require manual owner review before action.
04 · Safe remediation
Restore the prior load-balancer configuration from IaC or an exported template and validate probes, flows, DNS, certificates, and backend health.
05 · Financial truth
Net monthly saving includes only confirmed load-balancer processing/rule charges being removed; linked IP and data charges are modeled separately to avoid double counting.
Evidence Ledger example
Synthetic methodology example. It is not a live customer ledger or approved product screenshot; production reports show approved evidence captures inside the authenticated workspace.
Detector FAQ
Trust it when the required evidence is fresh, the owning team agrees the resource is in scope, and the verification path is clear: The meter stops and synthetic/user traffic remains healthy.
Park it when utilization, billing, ownership, or dependency evidence is incomplete, stale, contradicted, or tied to a planned migration or resilience design.
No. Costframe keeps provider access read-only and presents reviewable evidence and guidance. Customer teams approve and execute changes in their own process.
Check your environment
Review the resource state, source, freshness, confidence limits, and safe next action before anyone changes production.