Zombie Resource Cleanup
The idle resources quietly draining your budget
Detached EBS volumes accumulating storage cost. Application Load Balancers with zero healthy target registrations. EC2 instances in stopped state for 90 days still billed for attached EBS. Unattached Elastic IPs at $0.005/hr. FinOpsVyn detects them daily, assigns an owner, and shows the monthly cost — so your team can act. FinOpsVyn does not delete resources or terminate instances automatically.
What FinOpsVyn detects
Idle, detached, and forgotten — all surfaced with owner and cost
A list of idle resources with no ownership context is noise nobody acts on. FinOpsVyn adds the owner (resolved via tags, Terraform state, or CODEOWNERS), the monthly cost, the idle duration, and the Slack channel to notify — so cleanup requests go to the right person, not a shared ops queue. FinOpsVyn does not auto-remediate. Cleanup authorization stays with your team.
Detached storage volumes
EBS volumes and GCP Persistent Disks that have no instance attachment — often left behind after instance termination. FinOpsVyn shows the detach date, volume size, monthly cost, and last known instance owner.
Stopped instances with long idle time
EC2 and GCE instances that have been in stopped state for more than your configured threshold (default: 30 days). You still pay for storage. FinOpsVyn tags the owner and shows the accumulated cost since stop.
Load balancers without targets
ALBs, NLBs, and CLBs with zero healthy target registrations. A load balancer with no targets still costs ~$16/month. At scale, dozens of forgotten LBs add up quickly. FinOpsVyn shows the owner and last traffic date.
Idle Elastic IPs and unused NAT Gateways
Elastic IPs not associated with running instances, and NAT Gateways with no meaningful traffic. Both are billed even when idle. FinOpsVyn detects them and identifies the VPC owner for cleanup routing.
Slack cleanup workflows
When FinOpsVyn identifies a zombie, it messages the resource owner in Slack: "This EBS volume has been detached for 47 days and costs $31/month. Is it safe to delete?" Owner replies yes/no. No ticketing system required.
Savings opportunity report
Monthly summary of total zombie resource cost, broken down by type and team. Shows cleanup ROI over time — how much has been recovered by acting on FinOpsVyn alerts versus what remains unaddressed.
How it works
Detection is automatic. Cleanup authorization stays with your team.
FinOpsVyn does not delete volumes, terminate instances, release EIPs, or remove load balancers. This is intentional. Auto-remediation that fires on a false positive causes outages — and outages are more expensive than zombie resources. FinOpsVyn detects, attributes, and notifies. Your team confirms before anything is touched.
- Daily scan of all AWS and GCP resources against usage and billing signals
- Ownership resolved via tags, Terraform state, and GitHub CODEOWNERS
- Slack notification with one-click approve/defer cleanup workflow
- Audit trail of all cleanup decisions in the FinOpsVyn dashboard
Stop paying for resources nobody uses
Teams running $1M+ in AWS spend typically find $15K–$60K in zombie resource waste in their first attribution scan. Detection is free during trial. No write permissions required.