If you run AWS at any real scale, you eventually accumulate thousands of stale EBS snapshots —...
If you run AWS at any real scale, you eventually accumulate thousands of
stale EBS snapshots — leftovers from decommissioned volumes, forgotten AMIs,
one-off backups nobody ever cleaned up. Cloud Custodian
(c7n) is a popular way to find and delete them on a schedule. This post
walks through four pitfalls we hit while building a "safe" cleanup
Forgotten AWS resources quietly cost you money, and the cleanup is the chore everyone puts off. Here's how I cleared out old…
We've all done it. You spin up an RDS instance to test something on a Friday afternoon. You attach...
AWS makes it incredibly easy to provision infrastructure. Sometimes, a little too easy. An EC2...
Every cloud account is haunted. Not by anything dramatic, just by resources that outlived whatever...
A backup you have to babysit is not a backup. The whole point is that it runs without you, at 2 am,...
That EC2 instance you spun up for a quick test six months ago. Still running. Nobody remembers why...
