Identifying Unused AWS Resources to Control Costs - LogicMonitor
www.logicmonitor.com/blog/2015/09/29/identifying-unused-aws-resources-to-control-costs
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AWS is great, for reasons everyone knows. The ability to spin up instances and services immediately, just when you need them, can make your organization more agile and responsive. However, with many people and departments able to provision services – it’s easy to lose track of them, and leave resources running long after they are needed. Not only does this increase the complexity of the environment, it also wastes money.