GhostTrace

Free, Agentless, read-only S3 waste & risk audit

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Free, Agentless, read-only S3 waste & risk audit

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Stop guessing what your S3 buckets are actually costing you. 💸 Get a free, read-only S3 assessment that uncovers hidden waste, missing lifecycle rules, and security drift across every bucket in under 2 minutes. (EBS, EC2, and RDS coverage coming next!)

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9h ago

Why does AWS make it so easy to waste money on S3?

Hey everyone,

I ve spent a lot of time working with AWS infrastructure, and one thing that always annoys me is how sneaky all the costs are.

AWS Cost Explorer will show you that you spent money, but it won't easily tell you why. Things like broken 10-day-old file uploads sitting in limbo, or versioned buckets piling up old file copies because no one set an expiration rule, quietly eat your budget without triggering any alerts.

I originally wrote a small script to find these "ghost" costs on my own setup. It saved me money immediately, so I decided to turn it into a hosted tool called GhostTrace (S3 Passport).

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