FinOps tools are great at finding storage waste. Actually fixing it is the painful part.
We’ve been spending a lot more time looking at cloud costs lately and one thing keeps coming up over and over again: oversized EBS volumes.
The visibility side is honestly pretty solved at this point. Tools like Vantage, CloudHealth, etc. are good at showing where the waste is. We already know which volumes are overprovisioned and barely being used.
The problem is what happens after the dashboard.
The moment someone suggests reclaiming that storage, the conversation shifts from “cost optimization” to “who wants to risk touching production volumes?”
And that’s where everything stalls.
In practice it still usually means snapshots, migrations, maintenance windows, syncing data around, hoping nothing weird happens halfway through, etc.
So the result is that everyone agrees the waste exists, but nobody really wants to own the operational risk of fixing it.
Feels like cloud cost tooling got very good at identifying storage waste, but the actual remediation side is still stuck in manual-ops territory.
I’ve started seeing newer tools like Datafy trying to approach this from the remediation side instead of just reporting, but I’m curious whether people here are actually trusting these kinds of workflows in production yet.
Are most teams still accepting the waste as the safer option?