Operational Policies

Note:Click the link in the Policy Name column to access the corresponding policy template.

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Policy Name	Description
AWS Cloud Credentials Rotation	Updates the IAM user keys used to connect Flexera One’s Cloud Cost Optimization to an AWS account.
AWS Instance Scheduled Events	Reports on any AWS scheduled event that will impact instance availability.
AWS Long Running Instances	Checks for running instances that have been running longer than the “Days Old” parameter.
AWS RDS Backup Settings	Checks for RDS Instances that have unapproved backup settings.
AWS Subnet Name Tag Sync	Ensures a Subnet name in Flexera One’s Cloud Cost Optimization reflects the value of the Subnet name tag in AWS.
AWS VPC Name Tag Sync	Ensures a Network name in Flexera One’s Cloud Cost Optimization reflects the value of the Network name tag in AWS.
AWS Usage Report - Number of Instance Hours Used	Understanding the details of your cloud consumption is an important part of cloud financial management - whether you are looking to take advantage of committed use discounts or working closely with the cloud vendors to ensure capacity is available for your future needs. This Flexera One usage report will help you establish the number of compute hours by Instance/VM Type and Region to support you in achieving these outcomes. Applying these policies requires you to select the relevant AWS region for the analysis, or this can be left blank to analyze your organization as a whole. Note:This functionality is currently only available for AWS, however an Azure equivalent is in progress.
AWS Usage Report - Number of Instance vCPUs Used	Understanding the details of your cloud consumption is an important part of cloud financial management whether you are looking to take advantage of committed use discounts or working closely with the cloud vendors to ensure capacity is available for your future needs. This Flexera One usage report will help you establish the number of compute vCPUs by Instance/VM Type and Region to support you in achieving these outcomes. Applying these policies requires you to select the relevant AWS region for the analysis, or this can be left blank to analyze your organization as a whole. Note:This functionality is currently only available for AWS, however an Azure equivalent is in progress.
Application Migration Recommendations	Analyzes Flexera One’s Cloud Migration and Modernization data and generates recommendations for migrating application stacks to the most cost effective for each cloud providers and regions.
Azure Migrate Integration	Collects the resources from a Flexera One Cloud Migration and Modernization assessment and seeds Azure Migrate with the discovered servers.
Azure Sync Tags with Cloud Cost Optimization	Identifies all Azure Tag Keys and add them as custom dimensions in Flexera One’s Cloud Cost Optimization.
Azure VMs Not Using Managed Disks	Reports any VMs that are not using managed disks in Azure.
AzureAD Group Sync	Synchronizes AzureAD Groups to Flexera IAM Groups.
NetFlow Top Talkers	Analyzes Flexera One’s Cloud Migration and Modernization data and leverages these traffic patterns to identify the top communication routes from each application stack to external dependencies.
No Recent Snapshots	Checks for snaphots between now and a certain number of days.
Schedule IT Asset Management Report	Schedules a Flexera One IT Asset Management report (Custom view) and send it as a email to one or more recipients.
Stranded Servers	Reports and remediates any servers that are stranded in booting.
VMWare Instance Tag Sync	Adds tags to vmware instances from Flexera One’s Cloud Cost Optimization.