Dedicated to Terry A. Davis. The smartest programmer that's ever lived.

Cloud Elephant

Cloud Elephant is a tool providing a simple CLI interface for finding idle and unused resources in public clouds (AWS, Azure).

Supports:

• AWS ELB (Elastic Load Balancer)
• AWS EIP (Elastic IP Addresses)
• AWS EBS (Elastic Block Store)
• AWS AMI (Machine Images)
• AWS RDS (Relational Database Service) planned
• AWS EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) planned
• Azure Load Balancer
• Azure Managed Disk planned

Is it any good?

Yes.

Installation

MacOS

Use homebrew:

$ brew tap aint/cloudelephant-tap
$ brew install cloudelephant

Build from sources

If you want the latest version, the recommended installation option is to use go get:

$ go get -u github.com/aint/CloudElephant

and add an alias:

$ alias ce=CloudElephant

Download from the Releases page

Download a binary from the GitHub Releases tab.

Configuration

In order to use Azure, you need to set the following environment variables:

• AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID
• AZURE_TENANT_ID
• AZURE_CLIENT_ID
• AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET

Usage

$ ce [unused|idle] [elb|elbv2|eip|ami|ebs|azlb]

AWS ELB

Find classic ELB with no associated back-end instances.

$ ce unused elb

Find ELBv2 (Application, Network, Gateway) which associated target groups has no EC2 target instance registered.

$ ce unused elbv2

AWS EBS

Find available (unattached) EBS and EBS that are attached to stopped EC2 instances.

$ ce unused ebs

AWS AMI

Find unused Amazon Machine Images (no instances are running from AMI).

$ ce unused ami

AWS EIP

Find Elastic IP Addresses that is not associated with a running EC2 instance or an Elastic Network Interface.

$ ce unused eip

Azure Load Balancer

Find Load Balancers which don't have any associated backend pool instances.

$ ce unused azlb