Public IP should be associated with a resource

Low Azure General publicip-public-associated-resource

Applies to

Microsoft.Network/publicIPAddresses

What CGPulse checks

A resource passes this rule when isAssociated must equal true. Anything else is reported as a finding with the evaluated property value attached as evidence.

How to fix it

Verify the orphaned resource is unused, then delete or reattach it to reduce costs and risk. In Azure Portal: Resource > Overview > verify usage status. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-cost-recommendations

Careful: Permanently deletes the public IP address. Verify it is truly unused before proceeding

CLI

az network public-ip delete --ids "{id}"

Terraform

# Orphaned Public IP — verify it is unused, then remove from Terraform state # or delete the resource. Unassociated Public IPs incur cost and risk. # To delete: remove the azurerm_public_ip resource from your configuration # terraform state rm azurerm_public_ip.example

Compliance frameworks

Cloud Security BaselineAM-2

Vendor documentation

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