{
  "id": 18327480,
  "title": "A read-only Azure scanner that shows waste from your actual bill",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/a-read-only-azure-scanner-that-shows-waste-from-your-actual-bill",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-05T15:31:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/skyvedahq/a-read-only-azure-scanner-that-shows-waste-from-your-actual-bill-33jo"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A free, open-source tool called Skyveda Scan can help Azure users identify waste in their Azure accounts that is not immediately obvious, such as stopped VMs billing monthly or open SSH/RDP connections to the internet. The tool checks for 60 different factors across security, reliability, and cost areas, including VMs, networking, storage, AKS, App Service, SQL, and more. It produces an HTML report and a PDF, with a score for each area and an overall score. Skyveda Scan only reads data from Azure, never creates, changes, or deletes anything, and it does not access any secrets or data within resources. This makes it safe for security teams to approve quickly. The tool uses actual billing data rather than list prices for cost calculations, and it does not send any telemetry. Each check is defined in a single YAML file, making it easy to add or modify checks as needed. The project is released under the Apache 2.0 license, and feedback is welcome from users who want to help improve the tool. Skyveda Scan is designed to help users identify waste in their Azure accounts that can impact both security and costs.",
  "summary": "Most Azure estates carry two kinds of quiet debt. The first costs money every month: a disk left behind when a VM was deleted, a public IP nobody uses, a VM that was \"stopped\" but never deallocated, so it's still billed. Snapshots from a migration two years ago. The second costs you later: SSH or RDP open to the internet, storage that allows anonymous access, an AKS cluster with no network…",
  "key_points": [
    "Skyveda Scan identifies waste in Azure accounts",
    "Tool checks 60 factors across security, reliability, cost",
    "No changes, deletions, or secret access by Skyveda Scan"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}