Find unattached volumes, underused disks and growing backups
Surface storage waste and idle resources by owner, so each team gets a short cleanup list with the cost of doing nothing.
Runs in
Claude · Slack
First optimization recommendation
The next day
ROI
Pays for itself with the first recommendation you act on
List unattached volumes and underused disks by team with their monthly cost.
Unattached EBS volumes: 37, €1,940/month, 21 of them owned by Data (left over from the Spark migration). Snapshot spend tripled in 6 months in the backups account.
Owners delete, archive or keep each item.
Playbook
What the agent does
From what Costory notices to what you decide. Costory suggests the next step in conversation, and you decide whether to go ahead.
Costory notices
Unattached volumes or growing snapshots are detected.
Costory investigates
01
Use the storage template
Unattached volumes, underused disks, backup growth and high-cost storage classes in one dashboard.
02
Attach owners
Virtual Dimensions route each item to a team.
03
Claude shortlists
A cleanup list per team with the monthly cost of each item.
04
Post to the team
The list lands in the team's Slack channel.
Where you see it
Claude
You decide
Owners delete, archive or keep each item.
Why it matters
Orphaned disks and forgotten snapshots grow quietly. No single item is big enough to notice; together they are.
Who it’s for
Platform engineers, engineering managers
Where it runs
Claude · Slack
What you get
What lands in front of your team
Owned cleanup lists
Each team sees only its own waste.
Cost of inaction
Monthly cost on every item.
Recurring hygiene
A monthly reminder in Slack.
Sources and assistants
What it connects
Data sources
Example prompts
Or drive it yourself
Trend
Which backup and snapshot costs grew the most over the last 6 months, and who owns them?
FAQ
Questions about this playbook
Does Costory guarantee savings?
No. The agent investigates and recommends with the evidence attached; your team decides what to change. Impact figures are estimates based on your own data.
How long does this playbook take to set up?
Connecting your billing data and the Costory MCP takes under 30 minutes with Terraform or CloudFormation. The playbook itself takes minutes: pick the scope, the trigger and the Slack channel. The first billing data lands the next day, and the agent starts from there.
Can we adjust what the agent does?
Yes. You choose the trigger, the scope (team, service, environment), the channel and the format, and you can pause or change it at any time.
Does Costory change anything in our cloud accounts?
No. Costory reads billing exports and the metrics you connect, and has no write access to your cloud. Actions it takes create Costory objects only: alerts, reports, dashboards and events. Your team stays in control of every change.
Step-by-step guide in the Costory docs
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Put this playbook on call
Included in every plan, from €250/month. 30-day free trial: connect in under 30 minutes, get your first optimization recommendation the next day.
First optimization recommendation
The next day
ROI
Pays for itself with the first recommendation you act on
Setup
About 30 minutes
Data residency
EU
Access
Read-only on your cloud