Start with the waste pattern you suspect, from leftover storage and orphaned resources to other hidden cloud cost leaks.
Quick paths
Use these category guides to move from a suspected waste pattern, such as leftover storage or orphaned resources, into the detectors that can confirm it.
Why this matters
These are the practical cleanup themes the detector library currently supports.
Use this path for detached disks, incomplete uploads, manual bucket retention, and storage settings that keep billing after the workload changed.
Use this path when public IPs, disks, services, or old environments are still charging even though ownership and demand have drifted away.
Use this path when lifecycle rules, billing models, or leftover storage behavior no longer match how the workload is actually used.
How to use this page
Start with the category that best matches the issue, then continue into the AWS or GCP guide and its detector pages to confirm and fix it.
AWS categories
Browse AWS category guides when the review is centered on storage residue, idle infrastructure, or logging-cost drift.
Review stale AWS infrastructure spend across unassociated Elastic IPs, idle load balancers, quiet databases, and the surrounding ownership drift that keeps old environments hanging around.
Category guide
Idle and Underused Resources
Reduce AWS logging cost by fixing missing retention and self-targeted access logging before quiet log storage turns into recurring waste.
Category guide
Logging Cost Optimization
Reduce AWS storage costs by finding detached EBS volumes and abandoned uploads after workloads are gone.
Category guide
Storage Cost Optimization
GCP categories
Browse GCP category guides when the review points to stale resources, storage-policy drift, or data-platform cost leakage.
Uncover orphaned GCP infrastructure spend through unattached persistent disks and the ownership drift that leaves old environments partially retired.
Category guide
Orphaned and Stale Resources
Reduce GCP storage costs by finding BigQuery billing model mismatches and GCS buckets whose lifecycle cleanup is still fully manual.
Category guide
Storage Cost Optimization
Category pages are useful when the review is organized around a cost problem such as storage sprawl or stale resources. They help teams see the full cleanup theme before narrowing to individual detectors.
No. The category page gives the broader cleanup context. The detector page gives the concrete implementation detail, resource pattern, and remediation guidance.
No. They expand with the detector library. As Cloud Waste Hunter publishes more detector coverage, the category pages can grow into stronger thematic entry points without changing their URLs.
Early Access
Cloud Waste Hunter is being built to connect detector findings into one review flow with savings estimates, cleanup context, and practical next steps.
