Some cloud resources will cost money every month, forever. (I think this is an unappreciated side of the AWS business model; it’s not cost-effective to have a d

Some cloud resources will cost money every month, forever. (I think this is an unappreciated side of the AWS business model; it’s not cost-effective to have a dev confirm that each resource can be safely decomm’d.) There’s also a risk that your legacy environments only work because some dangling resource wasn’t cleaned up, and a new clone of the environment will fail.