Cloud Waste Detection That Finds the Money You Are Burning
Most cloud bills carry 20 to 35 percent waste. Costanalyst finds the idle, orphaned, and oversized resources hiding in yours and puts a dollar figure on every one.
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In short
Cloud waste detection is the automatic identification of cloud resources you are paying for but not using effectively, such as idle instances, unattached storage, oversized compute, and orphaned resources. Costanalyst connects to AWS, GCP, and Azure billing read-only, scans for these patterns, and reports each as a savings opportunity with its real monthly cost, prioritized so you cut the biggest waste first.
What you get
Cloud waste detection, built for finance and platform teams
Idle resource detection
Instances and databases running with near-zero utilization are caught and quantified, not left to quietly bill every month.
Orphaned resource cleanup
Unattached volumes, unused load balancers, and old snapshots that nobody owns are surfaced with their cost.
Oversized rightsizing
Compute provisioned far above its real usage is flagged with a target size and the savings it unlocks.
Multi-cloud in one view
Waste across AWS, GCP, and Azure shows up in a single list, ranked by dollars, not split across three consoles.
How it works
From connected to saving in four steps
Connect your clouds
Read-only billing and usage access to AWS, GCP, or Azure in a few minutes.
Scan for waste
Costanalyst checks utilization, attachment, and age patterns across every resource.
See the dollars
Each waste finding becomes a savings card with a monthly figure and the resources behind it.
Cut and track
Your team removes the waste in your cloud account. The savings show up on the next bill.
Questions people ask
Cloud waste detection, answered
What is cloud waste?
Cloud waste is spend on resources you are paying for but not using effectively: idle instances, unattached storage, oversized compute, forgotten test environments, and orphaned resources with no owner. Industry estimates put waste at 20 to 35 percent of the average cloud bill. Costanalyst scans AWS, GCP, and Azure billing read-only and puts a monthly dollar figure on each item so you cut the biggest waste first.
How do you detect idle cloud resources?
Idle detection looks at utilization over a window, usually CPU, network, and IOPS, and flags resources running near zero. Common culprits are RDS databases nobody queries, EC2 instances left on after a test, and load balancers with no traffic. Costanalyst checks these patterns automatically and reports each idle resource with the exact monthly cost it is quietly adding to your bill.
What are orphaned cloud resources?
Orphaned resources are components that were created alongside something else and never cleaned up when that something was deleted: unattached EBS or persistent disks, unused Elastic IPs, old snapshots, and unassociated NAT gateways. They keep billing with no workload behind them. Costanalyst surfaces orphaned resources across all three clouds in one ranked list so nothing keeps charging in the background.
How much of a cloud bill is wasted?
Most analyses put waste at 20 to 35 percent of cloud spend, driven by idle resources, overprovisioning, and forgotten infrastructure. The exact figure depends on how disciplined your tagging and shutdown practices are. Costanalyst measures your actual waste rather than quoting an average, showing each finding in dollars so you know precisely how much is recoverable this month.
Can cloud waste detection work across AWS, GCP, and Azure?
Yes. Native tools stop at their own cloud, so a multi-cloud team ends up checking three consoles. Costanalyst connects read-only to AWS, GCP, and Azure billing and reports idle, orphaned, and oversized resources in a single list ranked by dollars. You see total recoverable waste across every provider without stitching three reports together.
See your savings in dollars
Connect your spend read-only and get a prioritized savings plan. Money never moves. No card to start.