Lambda waste check

Lambda Provisioned Concurrency Idle

lambda_provisioned_concurrency_idle

Medium riskAir-Gapped and onlineValidation L2Open

What it finds

Lambda Provisioned Concurrency Idle: one of the Lambda checks in the compute optimization group. Checks in this group look for: compute capacity that is idle, stopped but still holding paid attachments, oversized for its load, or on an older generation.

Why it costs money

Compute is billed for the time it is provisioned, not for the work it does, so capacity nobody uses keeps billing.

How it is detected

Provisioned Concurrency utilization < 10% for 14 days

Detection confidence: HIGH. This is the criterion from our public docs. It runs in a local scan with your own read-only credentials.

AWS's own tools

None of Trusted Advisor, Cost Optimization Hub or Compute Optimizer flags this.

Checked against the AWS documentation.

Run it yourself

Nothing leaves your machine. The local scan has no telemetry.