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Show HN: AWS-doctor – A terminal-based AWS health check and cost optimizer in Go
- atmosx 9mo agoWill try this one soon, ty!
- elC0mpa 9mo agoThanks!!! If you find something that can be improved, don't doubt opening an issue!
- elC0mpa 9mo agoHi HN, I’m a Cloud Architect, and I built aws-doctor because I found myself constantly running the same manual checks across different AWS accounts to find "zombie" resources. While AWS Trusted Advisor exists, the best checks are often locked behind paid Business/Enterprise support plans, and the AWS Console can be slow when you just want a quick "health check." What it does: It’s a TUI (Terminal User Interface) that acts as a proactive checkup for your account. Waste Detection: Scans for stopped instances (>30 days), unattached EBS volumes, unassociated Elastic IPs, and expiring Reserved Instances. Cost Diagnosis: Compares your current month-to-date costs against the exact same period last month (e.g., Jan 1–15 vs. Feb 1–15) to spot spending velocity issues. Trends: Visualizes cost history over the last 6 months. The Tech Stack: Written in Go (1.24). Uses AWS SDK v2. UI built with Charm's Bubbletea and Lipgloss (for the tables/styling). It’s completely open-source and runs locally on your machine (using your standard ~/.aws/credentials). I’d love to hear your feedback on the code structure or suggestions for other "waste patterns" I should add to the detection logic. Thanks!
- sandGorgon 9mo agohave you considered using https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-exec https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-exec to run terraform inside you go process to manage the entire AWS connection piece. Terraform being largely rock solid and frequently updated on this. could make this considerably more robust.
- elC0mpa 9mo agoThanks a lot for your advice, I work every day with Terraform and I understand what you mean, but that is out of the scope at least right now, I want to keep this tool as simple as possible, but definitely this worth an analysis
- marinesebastian 9mo agoI was thinking of building something like this just a couple of days ago. Looks awesome! Will definitely try it out
- elC0mpa 9mo agoThanks, if you think about something that might be improved, please open an issue!!!
- LunaSea 9mo agoMy AWS cost optimiser is to use a hosting provider instead of AWS.
- x3n0ph3n3 9mo agoCool. Enjoy!
- elC0mpa 9mo agoSorry, I didn't understand the comment
- LunaSea 9mo agoUsing Hetzner or IVH will cut your infra bill by 4x or 5x
- logicallee 9mo agoThis is true, but be careful about losing the work experience. Companies love cloud computing and somehow are conditioned to want to pay for them and anyone who works on them. I received a devops job application rejection because they didn't see cloud computing providers on my resume. That's because I highlighted running my own dedicated servers.
- hnlmorg 9mo agoThat’s because architecting stuff for the cloud effectively means you’re building your infrastructure differently to how you’d run dedicated servers. I say this as someone who’s done both professionally. As a DevOps hiring manager, if you said to me “I don’t have cloud experience but I can do all the same things with dedicated servers” then I’d likely pass on you for another candidate too. A better way to frame your applications is “I have significant on prem experience using DevOps methodologies, and I’m excited to broaden them with Cloud technologies.” That way you’re acknowledging your knowledge gap and turning it into a positive.
- andrewstuart 9mo ago
- heyyfurqan 9mo agolooks cool, are you using any tui framework for this?
- leetrout 9mo agoThey are using charm bracelet lip gloss and some others. https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss