The Business hours recommendation page enables management and configuration of Business hours processes to control when cloud resources are powered on or off.

Key Features

• Business hours management: Configure and update schedules and policies to control resource operation times.
• Recommendation Categorization: Resources are grouped into tabs such as New (candidates for business hour enforcement), Scheduled (resources currently enforced), Declined (rejected enforcement), Failed (enforcement attempts failed), Report-only (matching report policies), and Excluded (resources excluded from enforcement).
• Savings Insights: Visual summaries show total potential savings by service category (e.g., Compute, Database) and change group (e.g., Change Management, Application Development), along with spend comparisons during business vs. non-business hours.
• Detailed resource data: Each recommendation includes key attributes such as configuration item ID, predicted monthly savings, provider, service category, policy details, change request information, ownership, and failure details if applicable.
• Exclusion process: Resources powered off by the Unused resources job are automatically excluded from future Business hours enforcement to prevent unintended restarts.
• Notification controls: Set thresholds for non-business hour spending that trigger alerts to users or groups.
• Policy enforcement: Business hours jobs apply defined policies to identify and manage resources running outside scheduled hours, enabling start/stop automation on a specified schedule.

Key Outcomes

• Improved cloud cost management by reducing resource usage during non-business hours.
• Clear visibility into potential savings across different services and change groups.
• Streamlined enforcement and exception handling through categorized recommendations.
• Automated scheduling of resource power states aligned with business requirements.
• Reduced manual effort and errors in managing cloud resource schedules.