This is a security and governance issue first; lower spend is often a useful bonus.
Most tools stop at visibility. OpsCurb treats findings like work: identify the resource, assign the owner, and keep follow-through visible until it closes.
Start with the Core Scan Role, add optional capabilities later, and review the public permission mapping before you connect.
Frame the issue in monthly and annual impact so the cleanup gets prioritized and tracked.
Use evidence, guardrails, and handoff language instead of raw AWS screenshots alone.
Identity sprawl creates both risk and cleanup debt.
This is usually loudest in teams with many historical operators and shared test environments.
Validate each user and key against recent activity and team ownership records.
Then confirm whether credentials are referenced in scripts or external automation.
Identity cleanup is one of the highest-risk cleanup categories because outages can be hard to trace to removed credentials.
The financial gain may be indirect, but security posture and operating clarity usually improve quickly.
Treat this as a governance ROI pass: lower identity complexity improves response speed and audit readiness.
Use staged action: identify, notify owner, then disable and remove after confirmation.
Keep notes for every decision so audit trails stay intact.
These are the friction points teams usually need to clear before they turn a likely savings opportunity into a real cleanup task.
In most cases, no. A staged approach with disable-and-monitor is safer for services with undocumented dependencies.
Primarily this is governance hygiene, with cost benefits as a healthy secondary outcome over time.
No. We intentionally keep remediation as an owner-controlled manual workflow with safeguards.
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