project

zombiescan

Command-line tool that scans an AWS account for unused resources and prices them, with a separate cleanup command and an MCP server front end.

Known aliases

xbill9/zombiescan
zombiescan-mcp

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Current clusters

build1 publisher

Twenty-two read-only checks price idle AWS resources, though five findings cost nothing

A Python tool called zombiescan sweeps every enabled AWS region in about 20 seconds using only Describe, List and Get calls, and the one sample run its guide publishes returned 86 findings that all price at zero dollars a month.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption8
Hype gap+25
Incentives60
Confidence45

build1 publisher

Returning the count from the engine fixed a question a small model missed twenty times out of twenty

An AWS waste scanner now exposes five read-only MCP tools that hand back totals, counts and breakdowns its engine computed. The findings themselves stay in a report file on disk, so the model has nothing to sum.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption10
Hype gap+10
Incentives50
Confidence52