Assessing an AWS Legacy Environment

You just got handed the keys to an AWS account that's been running for... who knows how long. The person who built it? Left the company 18 months ago. The documentation? "It's all in Confluence" (it's not). Now leadership wants to know: "Can we modernize this?" And you're thinking: "I don't even know what this is yet." Let's fix that. Why bother with an assessment? Because you can't fix what you don't understand. And you definitely can't tell your boss "this will take 6 months and cost $200K" when you haven't even looked under the hood. An assessment answers three simple questions: What are we running? How much is it costing us? What's about to explode? That's it. No 50-page reports. No fancy architecture diagrams that nobody reads. Just the facts. Start with the obvious: What's actually running? Open the AWS Console. Click around. Seriously. Go to EC2. How many instances do you have? Are they all running? Do they have names, or are they just "i-0a1b2c3d4e5f" with no tags? Check RDS. A