Reserved for the SKILL.SCH open source community.\n\nAzure Managed HSM (Hardware Security Module) bills a fixed hourly rate (~$3.30/hr, real, current Retail Prices API) per pool regardless of key operation volume. A Managed HSM with zero real key vault operations over the lookback window is a significant, real recurring cost — this is one of the most expensive single always-on services in Azure, so even a single idle instance is a high-impact finding.\n\nNote: Managed HSM activation requires generating a security domain (multiple RSA key-pairs, a real multi-step process) before it's usable — this is more involved to provision for verification than most checks in this repo, so budget real time and read Microsoft's activation docs first.
Reserved for the SKILL.SCH open source community.\n\nAzure Managed HSM (Hardware Security Module) bills a fixed hourly rate (~$3.30/hr, real, current Retail Prices API) per pool regardless of key operation volume. A Managed HSM with zero real key vault operations over the lookback window is a significant, real recurring cost — this is one of the most expensive single always-on services in Azure, so even a single idle instance is a high-impact finding.\n\nNote: Managed HSM activation requires generating a security domain (multiple RSA key-pairs, a real multi-step process) before it's usable — this is more involved to provision for verification than most checks in this repo, so budget real time and read Microsoft's activation docs first.