A county cloud office sees rising Elastic IP and EBS snapshot charges even though several citizen-facing apps were retired. Architects want AWS-native checks that highlight never-associated Elastic IPs and aged snapshots that can be deleted safely after review. Which approach best identifies those unused resources?
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Short Explanation
Trusted Advisor waves the unused-EIP flag; Cost Explorer shows the snapshot bill climbing. Together they tell you what never got associated and what backups outlived the app. Review, then delete—don’t buy RIs for addresses that do nothing.
Full Explanation
Trusted Advisor flags unused Elastic IPs and related idle resources, while Cost Explorer helps isolate Elastic IP and snapshot cost trends so teams can retire never-associated addresses and aged snapshots under change control. Disabling EIP allocation org-wide is too blunt; CloudTrail alone does not replace unused-resource cost findings; Reserved Instances do not apply to idle Elastic IP waste.