AWS

Idle Finder

Resources sitting idle and costing money — low-CPU instances, idle databases, unused volumes.

Tier Explorer

Category Operations

Refresh every 30 min

Scope regional

Live preview — demo data

Same idea on another cloud

Azure Idle Resource Finder GCP Idle Resource Finder

What this pane shows

A cross-service search for likely deletion candidates: EC2 instances under 5% CPU for 7+ days, RDS instances with no client connections, NAT Gateways with negligible bytes-out, unattached EBS volumes, idle load balancers. Each row carries the resource, its idle metric and the estimated monthly waste.

Key use cases

Find the largest cost-saving wins for a focused cleanup sprint.
Audit non-production environments for resources that should be off.
Build a deletion-candidate list with the dollar amount per row.
Catch dev / experimental resources that were forgotten about.

How to embed

lp.js is the single-entry loader: it injects the shared LightPane runtime (and sd-embed.css) once per page. Add this pane's own stylesheet and script; the pane mounts itself wherever the matching <div> is in the DOM.

<!-- In <head> — this pane's stylesheet -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://lightpane.io/_pane-tests/aws/idle-finder/idle-finder.css">

<!-- Your access key (inline, or set window.lpEmbed.accessKey from your own JS) -->
<script>window.lpEmbed = { accessKey: "<your-access-key>" };</script>

<!-- Where the pane should appear -->
<div class="lp-idle-finder-panel" data-lp-account="<your-account-alias>"></div>

<!-- Before </body> — shared loader + this pane's script -->
<script src="https://lightpane.io/embed/lp.js"></script>
<script src="https://lightpane.io/_pane-tests/aws/idle-finder/idle-finder.js" defer></script>

Tier

Available on Explorer and above.

Build notes

Mock-only at the moment — live-wiring tracked in the roadmap.