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Questions we get asked, answered properly.
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- 01 How do I find out who created an AWS resource? Use CloudTrail to trace an untagged AWS resource back to the IAM identity that created it — including the 90-day limit, and how to look further back using logs archived to S3.
- 02 How do I find all the untagged resources in my AWS account? Find untagged AWS resources with Resource Explorer, the Resource Groups Tagging API or Config — and why ranking what you find by spend matters more than the count.
- 03 How do I automatically stop AWS dev and test environments at night? Non-production AWS environments are billed for 168 hours a week and used for about 50. How to schedule stop and start safely, and what breaks if you do it naively.
- 04 What should we do first to reduce our AWS bill? A practical order of work for reducing AWS costs when nobody owns it full time — what to do first, what to automate, and what to ignore until later.
- 05 What is Cloud Custodian? Cloud Custodian is an open-source policy-as-code engine for cloud governance. What it does, what a policy looks like, and where it fits against AWS Config and commercial FinOps platforms.