Detect orphaned Azure resources (unattached disks, public IPs, App Service Plans, SQL Elastic Pools, Application Gateways, NAT Gateways, Load Balancers, Private DNS Zones, Private Endpoints, Virtual Network Gateways, DDoS Protection Plans) across subscriptions and compute their real historical co...
AI agents call find_orphaned_resources to retrieve information from Azure Pricing MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
The tool performs discovery and analysis of existing Azure resources and retrieves historical cost data. Although it requires authentication and has broad visibility across subscriptions, it only reads information (detects, computes costs from existing data) without creating, modifying, or deleting resources.
From the tool's definition Tool 'detect orphaned Azure resources' and 'compute their real historical cost via Azure Cost Management' — describes querying/retrieving resource data and cost information from Azure APIs without modifying or deleting resources.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access find_orphaned_resources gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and Azure Pricing MCP Server, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for find_orphaned_resources:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"find_orphaned_resources": {}
}
}find_orphaned_resources is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
Free to start. No card required.
Detect orphaned Azure resources (unattached disks, public IPs, App Service Plans, SQL Elastic Pools, Application Gateways, NAT Gateways, Load Balancers, Private DNS Zones, Private Endpoints, Virtual Network Gateways, DDoS Protection Plans) across subscriptions and compute their real historical cost via Azure Cost Management. Requires Azure authentication (az login or environment variables). It is categorised as a Read tool in the Azure Pricing MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Azure Pricing MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for find_orphaned_resources: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Azure Pricing MCP Server. Nothing to install.
find_orphaned_resources is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the find_orphaned_resources rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for find_orphaned_resources. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
find_orphaned_resources is provided by the Azure Pricing MCP Server MCP server (msftnadavbh/azurepricingmcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from Azure Pricing MCP Server, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
Free to start. No card required.
18 Azure Pricing MCP Server tools catalogued and risk-classified — across an index of 43,000+ MCP servers.