# ZeroWaste Report

AWS Cost Optimization without the BS

CloudForecast’s ZeroWaste helps you find and discover possible idle resources within EC2, RDS, EBS Volume, S3, ALB/ELB, and other areas that might be wasting you money.

“In the past this year to date, **we’ve saved $150 to 200K annualized** by just looking at the ZeroWaste Cost Optimization reports.”  
DevOps Lead  
Data Platform Company

Companies who have eliminated cloud cost surprises and saved $1M+ annually by empowering their engineering teams to own their costs.

### Safe & Secure Setup and Permissions

Setting up ZeroWaste is quick and easy, taking less than 5 minutes with our CloudFormation setup process. Our company policy is to never request “write” permission, only “describe” permissions to ensure a safe and secure setup.

You can review our setup process and permissions here: [ZeroWaste Setup Process](/content/documentation/getting-started/zerowaste/ ""/index.html).

### Proactive Reports via Email and Slack

Make cost optimization a team effort within your organization with ZeroWaste. Setup your the ZeroWaste report’s to be sent to your team either bi-weekly or monthly via email or Slack for them to review.

### Hidden Cost Saving

The ZeroWaste report provides a full breakdown of all idle resource in one view to help you save money.

- EC2 & RDS: Old generations and over-provisioned instances  
- EBS Volumes: Report on old snapshots and unused / unattached EBS volumes.  
- S3: Buckets with no lifecycle policy attached  
- ALB & ELB: Find and report on all unused ALB & ELB’s

## Case Study

99% Tagging Coverage & Team-Level Cost Visibility

BigBasket improved tagging from **60% to 99%** and gained clear cost attribution across all teams.

[View Case Study](/content/success-stories/how-bigbasket-achieved-99-tagging-coverage-with-cloudforecast/index.html)

**99% Tagging Compliance**  
**20+ Teams Attributed**  
**Faster Cost Detection**

## Testimonials

Why Engineering, DevOps, SRE & Infra Teams Love Us

“We were able to go ahead and **actually cut our annualized costs by roughly 35% with CloudForecast.**“  
Director of DevOps  
Ad-tech SaaS Company

“In the past this year to date, **we’ve saved 150 to 200K annualized** just by looking at the ZeroWaste Reports.”  
DevOps Lead  
Data Platform Company

“If that’s a hundred thousand dollars, **I just saved $40,000 over the course of a year…** So that’s a material impact into my cost of goods sold.”  
CTO  
DevTool SaaS Company

## Cloud Cost Management is Easy With CloudForecast

We would love to learn more about the problems you are facing around AWS and Azure cost. Connect with us directly and we’ll schedule a time to chat!