AWS Account Cleanup

Many AWS customers skip initial planning steps and don’t establish infrastructure-as-code scripting practices initially necessitating querying and cleaning up resources to avoid billing charges.

AWS tooling

• AWS Cost Explorer
• AWS Billing Console
• AWS Tag Editor select all regions, all resource types and uncheck tags

The open source community developed a number of tools

List all AWS resources

• aws_list_all command line
• awsls
• AWSRetriever desktop
• aws-inventory command line and GUI

Filtered delete

• aws-nuke extensive filtering
• cloud-nuke filtering by region, age, resourcetype is available