Rightsizing Opportunities

Last updated: October 22, 2026

Rightsizing opportunities are recommendations to adjust a resource's size to better fit your utilization patterns. For example, we might recommend that you change an instance type from t2.medium to t2.small if the resource is consistently using less than 75% of the current max t2.medium capacity. We also show you resources that would be cheaper and more performant if you upgraded to the newest version in the instance family.

To see your rightsizing opportunities, navigate to Savings Opportunities, and click the Rightsizing Opportunities button next to the Savings chart.

Note: To adjust which rightsizing checks you would like to run regularly, navigate to System Settings > Application Settings > Savings Opportunities. For more information, see Savings Opportunities Settings.

Filtering and Exporting

You can filter the information on this page by entering a keyword or by using the dropdown menus to select a cloud provider, service, and/or project. Select Include Dismissed to include savings opportunities that have already been dismissed. Filters remain active when moving between savings opportunity pages.

Click the download button

to export the current view as a .csv. The export takes into account any filters you have in place, only including the information you choose.

Cost and Savings

The Cost chart compares the following:

  • The Average Monthly Cost for the resources we have identified with rightsizing opportunities. This includes all of the resources listed in the Opportunities list below. This is calculated by averaging the monthly spend across cloud providers for the last three months. You can hover over the information icon

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    to learn which months were used in this calculation.

  • The Potential Monthly Cost should you appropriately apply all of the recommendations.

The Savings chart shows the following:

  • The Potential Monthly Savings and Potential Annual Savings you would save by appropriately applying all of the recommendations.

Opportunities

This page shows each individual resource with a rightsizing opportunity.

An ellipsis menu appears on the right if you hover over a resource. This menu gives you the options to:

  • View details. Open a details panel with cost/savings information about the selected resource. From the panel you can copy a link to share, open the opportunity on its own page, log in to the account containing the resource (Cloud access, if you have sufficient permissions), and use the Actions menu.

  • Mark as applied. Mark the savings opportunity as applied. Choose this option if you log into the account and apply the recommended change manually.

  • Dismiss. Mark the savings opportunity as dismissed, which indicates you do not wish to act on the recommendation at this time. Dismissed opportunities can be reviewed later by using the Include Dismissed option in the filter bar, and restored with Un-Dismiss.