US Patent 11995467 Validation, deletion, and recovery of resources in a service environment

Systems, devices, and methods are provided for validation, deletion, and/or recovery of resources in a service environment. A machine (e.g., server) may receive a request to identify or discover a list of resources that are unused in a service environment. A machine (e.g., server) may receive a request to delete one or more resources in a service environment. In at least one embodiment, deletion of a resource involves a two-stage process where the resource is recoverably deleted in a first stage (e.g., by deactivating or disabling the resource) such that the resource can be recovered prior to a predetermined time period by reactivating or re-enabling the resource and, in a second stage, the resource is unrecoverably deleted.