GhostTrace
Free, Agentless, read-only S3 waste & risk audit
GhostTrace launched on August 19, 2026 with 3 votes, #2,940 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.
What it does
Stop guessing what your S3 buckets are actually costing you. 💸 Get a free, read-only S3 assessment that uncovers hidden waste, missing lifecycle rules, and security drift across every bucket in under 2 minutes. (EBS, EC2, and RDS coverage coming next!)
GhostTrace is a read-only AWS cost audit. It inspects control-plane metadata — port listeners, attachment state, cross-service dependencies — to find ghost infrastructure and idle plumbing, with deterministic, dollar-quantified findings. Connect one read-only IAM role in two minutes.
Nothing hidden. Nothing touched. We read the metadata your cloud already tells the truth in — and never the data itself. GhostTrace analyzes metadata — never your files or workloads — to uncover unattached storage, idle compute, abandoned databases, and security drift across your AWS account. Standard tools read CPU percentages and demand downsizing. GhostTrace checks listener ports, attachment state, and cross-service dependencies first — then quantifies the finding in dollars and ranks it by impact. One read-only role reads every layer: storage, compute, database, serverless, logging, and the plumbing between them. Findings and savings are computed by pure functions from explicit metadata…from aws.ghosttracecloud.workers.dev
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