Reduce waste
Find and remove idle, orphaned, and oversized resources safely.
Where waste shows up
| Signal or type | Where | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Orphaned / Delete | Live inventory, Optimisation | Unattached volumes, unused elastic IPs |
| Idle / Delete | Live inventory, Optimisation | NAT gateways processing nothing |
| Rightsize | Optimisation | Oversized compute with sustained low utilisation |
| Schedule | Optimisation | Warehouses running through off-hours |
| Tier | Optimisation | Archival data held in hot storage |
Step by step
Start with housekeeping
In Optimisation, select the Housekeeping column. These are small, low-effort, safe changes. Assign them in a batch.
Decommission orphans
In Live inventory, select Decommission in the summary line to review idle and orphaned resources. Anything still serving traffic is locked out.
Right-size with evidence
Filter Optimisation to Rightsize with strong evidence. Open each and read Binding constraint and Blast radius before acting.
Schedule non-production
Look for Schedule opportunities on warehouses and non-prod compute that sit idle at night and at weekends.
Verify
After a change, the opportunity moves to Verifying and then Done once billing confirms the saving.