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Resource is Using Basic or Free SKU

Overview​

The use of Basic or Free SKUs in Azure whilst cost effective have significant limitations in terms of what can be monitored and what support can be realized from Microsoft. Typically, these SKU’s do not have a service SLA and Microsoft will usually refuse to provide support for them. Consequently Basic/Free SKUs should never be used for production workloads.

Typically, production workloads need to be monitored and should have an SLA with Microsoft; using Basic SKUs for any deployed product will mean that that these capabilities do not exist.

The impact of enforcing Standard SKU's is twofold

  1. There will be a cost increase
  2. The monitoring and service level agreements will be available and will support the production service.

Vendor​

Azure

Cloud Service​

Network Manager

CIS Azure v2.0.0 5.5

References​

Severity​

2

Item Types​

Microsoft.Network.publicIPAddresses, Microsoft.Network.loadBalancers, Microsoft.Cache.Redis, Microsoft.Sql.servers.databases, Microsoft.Network.virtualNetworkGateways