AWS Smart Resource Monitor

This project scans your AWS account daily for:

• Running EC2 Instances
• Available RDS Databases
• Idle EBS Volumes (not attached)
• Unused Security Groups (not attached to ENIs)

🧱 Architecture

🚀 Setup

1. Clone the repo
2. Run terraform init && terraform apply in the terraform/ folder
3. Lambda runs once a day and sends email via SNS

📬 Output

You’ll get a daily email like:

Idle EBS Volume: vol-0123abcd | 50GB
Unused Security Group: sg-1a2b3c Name: legacy-db

🔒 Required AWS Permissions

• IAM role creation
• Lambda, SNS, CloudWatch Events, EC2, RDS access

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