Savings Opportunities Overview

The savings opportunities overview shows you recommendations to reduce your cloud spend, including your current average cloud resource costs and potential savings if you act on the recommendations.

For more information about savings opportunities, including terminology and the types of recommendations Kion makes, see What is a Savings Opportunity?

Note: To adjust which opportunity 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.

Use the Monthly and Annual selector to switch the cost and savings figures between monthly and annual amounts. Select Include Zero-Cost Opportunities to include opportunities with no current monthly cost or no potential savings. Select Applied Opportunities to see opportunities that have already been marked as applied, or Settings (if you have permission to view system settings) to open the Savings Opportunities settings.

Demonstration

Savings Opportunities Summary

The Cost chart compares the following:

• The Average Monthly Cost (or Average Annual Cost, if you select Annual) for all scanned resources in your cloud environment. This is calculated by averaging the monthly spend across cloud providers for the last three months. You can hover over the information icon

  

  to learn which months were used in this calculation.

• The Potential Monthly Cost (or Potential Annual Cost) for all scanned resources should you appropriately apply all of the recommendations.

The Savings chart shows the following:

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

• A breakdown of the potential savings by savings opportunity type. Click on Decommissioning Opportunities or Rightsizing Opportunities to view metrics and details for that savings opportunity type.

Recent Opportunity Checks

The Recent Opportunity Checks section lists all of the recent checks with savings opportunities that haven't yet been applied. This section includes the quantity of resources affected, the opportunity check name, the current cost for all affected resources, and the potential savings if you apply the appropriate recommendation to all affected resources.

Dismissed opportunities are shown with a gray background if you select to Include Dismissed opportunities from the filter bar.

Use the All Opportunity Checks, Decommissioning, and Rightsizing selector above the list to narrow it by opportunity type. Clicking on an opportunity check in the list brings you to the opportunity check's details page.

Opportunity Check Details Page

Click any savings opportunity check in the Recent Opportunity Checks list to see the opportunity check details page. This page shows similar cost and savings charts to the savings opportunities overview, but limits the results to the cost/savings for this opportunity check alone. The savings information is the projected amount you would save by appropriately applying this recommendation to all listed resources.

This Opportunities list includes each individual resource that is recommended for this savings opportunity check.

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.

• Stop resource. Temporarily stop the resource, for decommissioning opportunities on resource types that support stopping. Like Terminate resource, this option only displays if it is enabled in System Settings > Application Settings > Savings Opportunities.

• Terminate resource. Permanently terminate the resource (decommissioning opportunities only). This makes it easy to decommission a resource that is not being utilized. Use this option with caution, as terminating the wrong resources can disrupt services in your environment. This option only displays if it is enabled in System Settings > Application Settings > Savings Opportunities.

• 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.

Considerations for Detailed Billing Reports

For customers using Detailed Savings Reports (AWS DBR), some savings opportunities may show as $0 opportunities due to limitations of gathering cost data for some resources. These opportunities can still be shown by enabling "Include zero-cost opportunities", which will allow savings opportunities to show in any environment using a DBR.