Have you ever had a surprise AWS bill for things that you forgot to shut down or delete? I have too!
While there’s no easy “delete all the things” button in AWS, there are two ways you can easily find resources that are running: Cost Explorer and the Tag Editor. In this hands-on tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to use both tools to find the resources that are running so you can then delete them.
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00:00 – Have you ever received a surprise AWS bill for things you forgot were running?
00:31 – Using Cost Explorer to find which services are running
00:59 – Filtering and grouping in Cost Explorer
03:11 – Using the Tag Editor/Resource Groups to find which services are running
03:43 – Searching for AWS resources across all regions
04:36 – Searching for AWS resources in a specific service
05:12 – Terminating/deleting EC2 instances from the Tag Editor