Saving on Deleting Idle Resources

Idle resources can be Unassociated / Unallocated / Unattached / Unused / Inactive resources. They are a total waste (deletion = 100% savings), usually represents between 5 and 20% of your total opportunities and are easy to fix (minimal effort).

VPC Endpoints

2 Dec 2025

A VPC Endpoint is considered idle when it has no or minimal traffic, yet continues to incur hourly charges. Such endpoints should be deleted to avoid unnecessary costs. Subtitles are available in Engl...

RDS Instances

21 Nov 2025

Idle RDS Instances — those without active connections or sessions — still incur monthly costs. Subtitles are available in English, French and Spanish. Click here to get the full masterclass. How to id...

Idle EC2 Instances

17 Nov 2025

EC2 Idle Instances have a CPU Usage below 2% and are recommended to be deleted. Subtitles are available in English, French and Spanish. Click here to get the full masterclass. How to identify? From ou...

Old EBS Snapshots

16 Nov 2025

Amazon EBS Snapshots cost 50% less than EBS Volumes , but costs can accumulate quickly—especially with automatic snapshots. We recommend archiving or deleting snapshots older than 1 year. Archived sna...

EBS Volumes

16 Nov 2025

Unused EBS Volumes — whether in an idle state (less than 1 IOPS operation per day) or unattached/available — incur a monthly cost . Always confirm that a volume is no longer needed before deleting it....