How Unassigned Resources processes work

For cloud billing information to be accurate, it must include all resources in your managed cloud infrastructure. An Unassigned Resources policy analyzes all resources to identify resources that are not assigned to an assignment group. The policy can then auto-assign the appropriate assignment group to the resources. Unassigned Resources jobs follow this process:

Unassigned Resources — Resources tab

Use the Resources tab on the Unassigned Resources page to assess and manage your ongoing efforts to ensure that all resources are associated with an assignment group. You have greater understanding of and control over your cloud spend when resources are assigned accurately.

Unassigned Resources — Policies tab

To ensure that the information on usage and spending is accurate, Unassigned Resources policies identify resources that do not belong to an assignment group. For such resources, the policy can auto-assign an assignment group to a resource, require a member of the assignment group to approve the assignment, or add the resource to a report and take no further action.

You create and manage Unassigned Resources policies on the Policies tab. See Define or update an Unassigned Resources policy.

Requirements and limitations

• The Cloud Discovery process triggers Unassigned Resources analysis and updates recommendations in reports.
• The Unassigned Resources feature supports AWS EC2 instances only.
• Terminated, retired, or canceled resources are not considered.
• Data appears on reports only when at least one policy is active. See Viewing Unassigned Resources policies for details.
• When a policy is created or updated with changes other than to its name or description, a notification appears on the tab. Click the Reapply Policies button to apply the changed policy and recalculate the reported data.