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title: "Decommission idle or unused resources in Azure"
url: "https://support.paratira.ai/en/article/decommission-idle-or-unused-resources-in-azure"
language: "en"
last_updated: "2025-07-01T15:10:17.005Z"
---

# Decommission idle or unused resources in Azure

The platform identifies idle or unused resources in Azure environments and recommends decommissioning them. Maintaining unused resources leads to unnecessary costs and environmental impact while adding complexity to resource management.

## Recommendation Impact Across KPIs

| KPI | Impact | Calculated? |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Reliability:** | No direct reliability impact identified | ❌ |
| **Security Compliance:** | No direct security impact identified | ❌ |
| **Economic:** | No direct economic impact identified | ❌ |
| **User Experience:** | No direct user experience impact identified | ❌ |
| **Environment:** | Reduction in carbon footprint through elimination of unused resource power consumption | ✅ |

## Score Calculation

### 1\. Data Ingestion

-   Azure resource identification
-   Current resource utilization metrics
-   Resource idle time measurements

### 2\. Data Enrichment

-   Mapping to resource groups
-   Resource dependency analysis
-   Historical usage patterns

### 3\. Health Score

-   Calculate the Environment Health score based on: Carbon Usage = (Current storage carbon usage - New recommendation carbon usage) / Total Carbon Usage of all assets

## Example Graph

Not applicable for this recommendation update as it focuses on KPI pillar scoring modifications.

## Business Opportunities

### Product Sales Opportunity

Not applicable for this recommendation update as it focuses on KPI pillar scoring modifications.

### Professional Services Opportunity

Not applicable for this recommendation update as it focuses on KPI pillar scoring modifications.

## Remediation Guidance

Not applicable for this recommendation update as it focuses on KPI pillar scoring modifications.

## Supporting Information

### Supported Data Sources

-   Azure Advisor
-   CoreStack

### Recommendation Categorisation

-   Optimisation
-   Resource Management
-   Cost Optimization

### Supported Instances

-   Azure Resources
-   Azure Services
-   Azure Storage

### Planned Instances

-   Additional Azure resource types
-   Cross-platform resource optimization
-   Automated decommissioning workflows