Savings & recommendations

Savings pulls your organization’s cost-cutting opportunities into one place — idle and rightsizing fixes plus commitment-coverage gaps — each with a dollar estimate so you can act on the ones that matter.

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A short walkthrough of how CloudQuell surfaces savings opportunities and estimates their impact.

The headline picture

At the top, Savings rolls up your monthly opportunity into three numbers:

• Banked — estimated savings of recommendations you’ve marked implemented.
• Open — identified opportunities you haven’t acted on yet.
• Potential — the total you could save if you acted on everything.

Alongside these you get a breakdown by action type, so you can see where the biggest wins are before drilling into individual recommendations.

Savings Opportunities, each with an estimated monthly impact and a status to act on.

Recommendation types

Each recommendation carries an action type describing what to do, for example:

• Rightsizing / OPTIMIZE — a resource is over-provisioned for its actual load.
• Idle / Review-Delete — a resource looks unused and may be removable.
• Commitment purchase (PURCHASE) — usage is running on-demand that a Reserved Instance or Savings Plan would cover more cheaply. These tie directly to your commitment coverage.
• Create endpoint — traffic routed through a NAT gateway would be cheaper over a VPC endpoint.

What each recommendation tells you

Every recommendation includes the affected service, product, account, and Region; the current monthly cost; the estimated monthly savings; and an effort and confidence rating so you can weigh quick wins against larger projects. You can filter by a minimum monthly-savings floor, action type, account, or product, and results are sorted highest-savings-first.

Next steps

• Recommendation workflow — review, act on, track, and dismiss recommendations.
• AI Advisor — get help interpreting and prioritizing the list.

Paid feature

Full Savings detail — the recommendation list and the workflow — is available on paid plans. Free plans see a headline KPI peek (such as total potential savings) with the detail locked behind an upgrade prompt. See Plans & billing.

You can also review savings through an AI agent connected to the CloudQuell MCP server — for example “show me our top 10 savings opportunities worth at least $100/month.” Only AWS is live today; other providers are in development.