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Finding cloud resources that cost money and do nothing
A zombie-resource scanner with confidence scores.
Scans AWS for unattached volumes, unassociated Elastic IPs, load balancers with no targets, idle NAT gateways and RDS instances, orphaned snapshots and unused AMIs. Each finding carries a deterministic confidence score that never reaches 100, because a scanner cannot know your intent, and the monthly cost it would reclaim. It never deletes anything: it prints the commands and running them is on you.
What is in it
- The problem — what goes unanswered without it, and who notices first.
- Why the obvious alternative falls short — stated plainly, including where it is the better choice.
- How it works — the method, not a feature list.
- Concrete use cases — with console output quoted from the repository, never reconstructed.
- The methodology behind any number it emits — every term shown, so the figure survives a question.
- What it deliberately does not do — the section most papers leave out.
Part of the Cost & FinOps theme.
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