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Using the public cloud will let you do experiments, iterate, and test new services and new capabilities; it will unleash the potential of your teams to do innovation and, in the end, reduce the time to market with innovative products.

Cloud computing comes with a promise: “Pay as you go.”

This statement is partially true. However, it is only accurate if you take care — really care — of your active assets on your Cloud Service Provider (CSP).

It’s even harder to accomplish this with large agile, fast-moving teams, with many AWS accounts, and even more complex with many teammates spread across continents. So you must put some guardrails and awareness to tackle the lack of visibility and constantly changing environments.

How often have you forgotten to turn off this EC2 or SageMaker Notebook in the exotic AWS region in this lab/sandbox AWS Account for the last two weeks? How often have you realized you were in the wrong region in the AWS Console and provisioned some assets in the wrong place?

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Here is born 💸 unusd.cloud, a SaaS product built for operational teams to bring cloud sustainability: cost awareness and waste detection in your effort to reduce costs and lower your carbon footprint. A win-win strategy.

It works like a garbage collector 🚚. On a schedule, you will receive a report of what you missed to turn it off in the following AWS resources types:

1. EC2 Instances

2. RDS Instances

3. Snapshots (EBS / RDS)

4. Infinite CloudWatch log groups

5. Glue DevEndpoints

6. Redshift Clusters

7. SageMaker Notebooks

8. Detached EBS Volumes

9. IAM Principals (Roles + Users)

10. Unused Elastic IPs

11. More to come

You can put in an ExceptionList all legitimate assets to avoid alert fatigue and get relevant reports.

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Originally posted on zoph.me

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