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Automated Deployment Resource Cleanup
2 days ago by Nathan Young
Keeping your infrastructure tidy shouldn’t require a weekly calendar reminder. We’re introducing Automated Deployment Resource Cleanup, a new Hyphen Agent capability that detects and safely removes unused or stale cloud resources created during deployments.
Over time, environments accumulate:
- Orphaned containers
- Unused load balancers
- Detached volumes
- Expired preview environments
- Outdated build artifacts
These resources quietly increase cloud spend, clutter your infrastructure, and add operational risk.
Hyphen now automatically identifies deployment-created resources that are no longer in use and cleans them up according to your organizational, project, or deployment-level retention policies.
How it works
- Hyphen tracks resources created during each deployment.
- When a deployment is archived or re-deployed, associated resources are evaluated.
- Resources that are no longer referenced by active services are automatically removed.
- Cleanup actions are logged and visible in the Agent Inbox for full transparency.
What this means for you
- 💸 Reduced cloud spend from unused infrastructure
- 🔒 Lower operational risk from forgotten resources
- 🧹 Cleaner deployment environments
- ⚡ Zero manual cleanup scripts required
Things to know
- Cleanup only applies to resources provisioned through Hyphen-managed deployments.
- Active environments are never impacted.
- Retention policies can be configured at the organization, project, or individual deployment level.
- The feature is enabled automatically.