IdleCloud connects to your AWS account in read-only mode and surfaces the dead weight — unattached EBS volumes, long-stopped EC2 instances, orphaned Elastic IPs, idle NAT gateways. Then it hands you the exact CLI commands to clean each one up. Most accounts find $50–$500/month of waste on the first scan.
We give you the exact IAM policy — read-only, scoped to the services we scan. IdleCloud cannot modify anything in your account. Period.
We walk every region, every service, and build a report of idle and orphaned resources with their monthly cost.
For every finding, IdleCloud generates the exact AWS CLI command to fix it. Copy the ones you want, skip the ones you don't, run them yourself. You're always in control.
Nothing in IdleCloud is secret. It's stuff a senior engineer can do with the AWS console and a few hours. The question is whether anyone on your team actually has the few hours.
| Doing it manually | IdleCloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first finding | 2–4 hours per AWS account, per region you remember to check | Under 5 minutes, all regions |
| Covers every region | Usually only the regions you actively use — the forgotten resources hide elsewhere | All regions, every time |
| Cost math per resource | You look up prices on the pricing page and do the multiplication | Calculated automatically, per resource |
| Suggested fix | You decide — was that volume important? Better check. | Exact CLI command per finding, with the resource's last-attached-to and tags |
| Repeatable | Falls off the to-do list within a month | Re-scan weekly, monthly, or never. Up to you. |
| Risk of breaking something | Same as IdleCloud — depends on what you delete | Read-only by default. We never delete anything; you run the commands you trust. |
We're still tuning the scanner against real-world AWS accounts. Beta users get the full feature set at no cost — and grandfathered pricing when we exit beta.
No credit card. Read-only access only.
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