AWS Unused Resources

Overview

Get the details of unused resources present across regions in the AWS account

Description

• This script provides a detailed overview of the number of unused resources present in the AWS account.
• It provides service-wise details of unused resources lying around in all the regions of the AWS account.

Service Coverage

Currently, the script supports below AWS services :

• AWS::EC2::Volume
• AWS::EC2::EIP
• AWS::EC2::NetworkInterface
• AWS::EC2::VPC
• AWS::EC2::Subnet
• AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup
• AWS::ElasticLoadBalancing::LoadBalancer
• AWS::ElasticLoadBalancingV2::LoadBalancer
• AWS::IAM::User
• AWS::IAM::Group

Pre-requisites

• Workstation with Python version 3 and above
• AWS python-based SDK: boto3. Installation command:
  • pip3 install boto3
• pandas framework and openpyxl for reporting operations (xlsx file). Installation command(s):
  • pip3 install pandas
  • pip3 install openpyxl
• User credentials (Access Key Id and Secret Accces Key) of a user having atleast the Security Audit permission and above on the AWS account

Example

• This script can be executed on a python compiler (AWS Cloudshell, Powershell, bash, any command line tool with python installed)
• Command:
  • python ./unused_aws_resources.py --accessKey <AWS Access Key Id> --secretKey <AWS Secret Access Key>

Output

• The script will provide a summarized count of all unused resources in the account.

• For a detailed view, the user can refer to the .xlsx file that will be generated by the script.