VMs in regions with an 8–17% price increase from Feb 1, 2027
AzureCost optimizationFree planSeverity: medium
azure.vmVMs in West Europe, North Europe, France Central/South, Norway East/West or Southeast Asia on a VM series that is not excluded from the 1 February 2027 regional price increase
What LeftSize checks
Find VMs in regions with a price increase on 1 February 2027 (8-17%) whose size is NOT in one of the series Microsoft excluded from the update.
Why it matters
Resources like this keep billing every hour while delivering little or no value, and nobody notices until the invoice arrives.
What you get in the GitHub issue
LeftSize runs this check from a scheduled GitHub Action with a read-only identity in your Azure account and opens one issue per scope, updated on every scan. The issue includes:
- The affected resources, grouped per subscription, resource group or account and region
- An estimated monthly cost where pricing data is available
- Background on why it was flagged and when it is a false positive
- Cost and operational impact of fixing it
- Alternative approaches and their trade-offs
- Step-by-step remediation with safety checks
- Ready-to-run fix scripts (CLI, PowerShell or Terraform where available)
- Snooze, ignore or report a finding with a comment on the issue
Install LeftSizeIncluded in the Free plan.