If you manage cloud infrastructure at scale, you already know the Friday afternoon drill: Finance pings you about a 15% spike in the AWS bill, and suddenly you are spending your weekend clicking through AWS Cost Explorer, hunting down unattached EBS volumes, idle EC2 instances, and unassociated Elastic IPs across multiple regions.

AWS provides native tools like Cost Explorer and Trusted Advisor, but they often lack programmable, deeply customizable data manipulation. Manually tracking down orphaned resources in the AWS Console is slow, repetitive, and burns engineering hours that should be spent shipping features.

To solve this, I built aws-finops-auditor .

It is a lightweight, CLI-driven tool that uses boto3 to inspect cloud resources and pandas to normalize, analyze, and aggregate infrastructure waste into an actionable report.…