aws-doctor

aws-doctor is a powerful, open-source Command Line Interface (CLI) tool designed to perform comprehensive health checks on Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. It acts as a diagnostic utility that helps users understand exactly where their cloud budget is going and what infrastructure can be safely cleaned up. Essentially, it serves as a free, open-source alternative to the premium recommendations found in AWS Trusted Advisor. Core Features & Capabilities Zombie / Waste Detection: It scans various AWS services to find idle, forgotten, or underutilized resources. This includes unattached Elastic IPs (EIPs), stopped EC2 instances, orphaned EBS snapshots, idle RDS databases, unused NAT Gateways, idle Load Balancers, over-provisioned Lambda memory, and empty ECR repositories. Comparative Cost Analytics: It compares identical time windows across different billing months to spot genuine cost anomalies (rather than just showing raw total spending). 6-Month Trend Analysis: Generates a high-fidelity visual trend of spending velocity over the last six months directly in the terminal. Professional Reporting: Automatically generates clean, branded PDF reports (for costs, waste, and trends) that are ready to be shared with business stakeholders. Region-Aware Estimations: It queries the AWS Pricing API dynamically at startup to ensure the cost estimates it provides are accurate for the specific AWS region being audited. Security & Authentication: Natively supports AWS profiles that require Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).