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Don't Let Unused Resources Drain Your Budget: 5 Tips & How Automation Helps

OpsNow Team
May 27, 2025

There’s a silent budget killer in the cloud: paying for resources you aren't actively using. Unattached storage volumes, idle IP addresses, snapshots long past their usefulness – these unused resources can accumulate into significant wasted spend, eroding your cloud ROI. Identifying and eliminating this waste is a critical task for any organization committed to cost efficiency.

Combating unused resources requires both diligent practices and powerful tools. Here are 5 actionable tips to help you get started:

  1. Implement Mandatory Tagging: Enforce a policy requiring all resources to be tagged with ownership, project, and environment.
  2. Schedule Non-Production Resources: Automatically shut down development, staging, and testing environments during off-hours.
  3. Right-Size Underutilized Resources: Monitor key metrics like CPU/memory to identify resources for downsizing.
  4. Set Up Automated Lifecycle Policies: Configure cloud-native policies for storage or snapshots.
  5. Establish Regular Cleanup Sweeps: Schedule time for teams to review and decommission resources.

While manual processes and native cloud tools can help, managing unused and underutilized resources at scale across dynamic cloud environments is a constant challenge. This is where automation provides a decisive advantage.

Automated Detection and Recommendations

OpsNow FinOps Plus elevates your ability to combat wasteful spending with automated, intelligent solutions. The platform automatically scans your entire multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP) to identify unused resources (like detached EBS volumes, idle EIPs) and underutilized resources based on configurable criteria. Get clear, data-driven recommendations on which resources to delete or downsize, presented with estimated monthly savings, helping you prioritize actions with the biggest impact.

Intelligent Automation for Real Savings

OpsNow provides the tools to automate the cleanup. The Advanced Resource Scheduler allows you to set intelligent, dependency-aware schedules for your non-production resources, automatically powering them down when not needed. While AutoSavings focuses on commitment optimization, the platform's integrated optimization suite automates the identification and facilitates the action on all forms of waste, driving significant automated savings.

Unused and underutilized resources are a direct hit to your budget and efficiency. By combining smart operational tips with the powerful, automated capabilities of OpsNow FinOps Plus, you can proactively identify, manage, and eliminate this wasteful spending at scale, ensuring your cloud investment delivers maximum value. Stop paying for what you don't use – automate your way to a leaner, more efficient cloud.

Ready to stop wasting money on unused resources? Get your 3-month free trial or Contact Sales to learn more.

Don't Let Unused Resources Drain Your Budget: 5 Tips & How Automation Helps

OpsNow Team
May 27, 2025

There’s a silent budget killer in the cloud: paying for resources you aren't actively using. Unattached storage volumes, idle IP addresses, snapshots long past their usefulness – these unused resources can accumulate into significant wasted spend, eroding your cloud ROI. Identifying and eliminating this waste is a critical task for any organization committed to cost efficiency.

Combating unused resources requires both diligent practices and powerful tools. Here are 5 actionable tips to help you get started:

  1. Implement Mandatory Tagging: Enforce a policy requiring all resources to be tagged with ownership, project, and environment.
  2. Schedule Non-Production Resources: Automatically shut down development, staging, and testing environments during off-hours.
  3. Right-Size Underutilized Resources: Monitor key metrics like CPU/memory to identify resources for downsizing.
  4. Set Up Automated Lifecycle Policies: Configure cloud-native policies for storage or snapshots.
  5. Establish Regular Cleanup Sweeps: Schedule time for teams to review and decommission resources.

While manual processes and native cloud tools can help, managing unused and underutilized resources at scale across dynamic cloud environments is a constant challenge. This is where automation provides a decisive advantage.

Automated Detection and Recommendations

OpsNow FinOps Plus elevates your ability to combat wasteful spending with automated, intelligent solutions. The platform automatically scans your entire multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP) to identify unused resources (like detached EBS volumes, idle EIPs) and underutilized resources based on configurable criteria. Get clear, data-driven recommendations on which resources to delete or downsize, presented with estimated monthly savings, helping you prioritize actions with the biggest impact.

Intelligent Automation for Real Savings

OpsNow provides the tools to automate the cleanup. The Advanced Resource Scheduler allows you to set intelligent, dependency-aware schedules for your non-production resources, automatically powering them down when not needed. While AutoSavings focuses on commitment optimization, the platform's integrated optimization suite automates the identification and facilitates the action on all forms of waste, driving significant automated savings.

Unused and underutilized resources are a direct hit to your budget and efficiency. By combining smart operational tips with the powerful, automated capabilities of OpsNow FinOps Plus, you can proactively identify, manage, and eliminate this wasteful spending at scale, ensuring your cloud investment delivers maximum value. Stop paying for what you don't use – automate your way to a leaner, more efficient cloud.

Ready to stop wasting money on unused resources? Get your 3-month free trial or Contact Sales to learn more.

Don't Let Unused Resources Drain Your Budget: 5 Tips & How Automation Helps

There’s a silent budget killer in the cloud: paying for resources you aren't actively using. Unattached storage volumes, idle IP addresses, snapshots long past their usefulness – these unused resources can accumulate into significant wasted spend, eroding your cloud ROI. Identifying and eliminating this waste is a critical task for any organization committed to cost efficiency.

Combating unused resources requires both diligent practices and powerful tools. Here are 5 actionable tips to help you get started:

  1. Implement Mandatory Tagging: Enforce a policy requiring all resources to be tagged with ownership, project, and environment.
  2. Schedule Non-Production Resources: Automatically shut down development, staging, and testing environments during off-hours.
  3. Right-Size Underutilized Resources: Monitor key metrics like CPU/memory to identify resources for downsizing.
  4. Set Up Automated Lifecycle Policies: Configure cloud-native policies for storage or snapshots.
  5. Establish Regular Cleanup Sweeps: Schedule time for teams to review and decommission resources.

While manual processes and native cloud tools can help, managing unused and underutilized resources at scale across dynamic cloud environments is a constant challenge. This is where automation provides a decisive advantage.

Automated Detection and Recommendations

OpsNow FinOps Plus elevates your ability to combat wasteful spending with automated, intelligent solutions. The platform automatically scans your entire multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure, GCP) to identify unused resources (like detached EBS volumes, idle EIPs) and underutilized resources based on configurable criteria. Get clear, data-driven recommendations on which resources to delete or downsize, presented with estimated monthly savings, helping you prioritize actions with the biggest impact.

Intelligent Automation for Real Savings

OpsNow provides the tools to automate the cleanup. The Advanced Resource Scheduler allows you to set intelligent, dependency-aware schedules for your non-production resources, automatically powering them down when not needed. While AutoSavings focuses on commitment optimization, the platform's integrated optimization suite automates the identification and facilitates the action on all forms of waste, driving significant automated savings.

Unused and underutilized resources are a direct hit to your budget and efficiency. By combining smart operational tips with the powerful, automated capabilities of OpsNow FinOps Plus, you can proactively identify, manage, and eliminate this wasteful spending at scale, ensuring your cloud investment delivers maximum value. Stop paying for what you don't use – automate your way to a leaner, more efficient cloud.

Ready to stop wasting money on unused resources? Get your 3-month free trial or Contact Sales to learn more.

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