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AWS Zombie Resources Drive Up Cloud Bills Undetected

DevOps teams are frequently asked to find orphaned AWS resources and explain high cloud bills but lack good open-source tooling. Existing FinOps SaaS platforms are expensive, and writing one-off scripts is tedious and error-prone.

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