Cost Savings
The Cost Savings report provides a summary of possible AWS savings. CloudCheckr uses information from our Best Practices Cost Checks to demonstrate the possible savings for your account.
Category Summaries
This portion of the report displays a concise total of expected savings available to your account as part of a two step process. The suggested first step is to investigate and remediate as needed any idle and unused resources. After this activity is complete, allow a suggested minimum of 7 days to elapse before moving to step 2. Step 2 is to utilize Savings Plans and RI Recommendations to make commitment purchases based on planned future workloads.
Breakdown Summary by Category Type
The lower portion of the report provides more detail about the Resources subtotals.
Idle Resources
Expanding any of the Idle resource items will provide additional details about name, usage, cost, and region.
Unused, Mis-Provisioned, or Previous Generation Resources
Likewise, expanding the Unused, Mis-Provisioned, or Previous Generation resource items will provide expanded views of IDs, Costs, Usage, Configurations, etc.
Reserved Purchase Recommendations
Finally, Reserved Purchase Recommendations details changes that can be made to Reserved Instances for additional savings.
Which Best Practice Checks Inform Each Category?
Each of the six main sections of Cost Savings is updated on a daily basis based on the aggregated results from your Cost Best Practice Checks. Each of the sections is populated with data from the following Best Practice Checks:
- Idle Resources: Idle EC2 InstancesIdle ElastiCache NodesIdle Elastic Load BalancersIdle RDS DB InstancesIdle DynamoDB TablesIdle Redshift Nodes
- Unused Resources: Unattached EBS VolumesUnused Elastic IP AddressesUnused Elastic Load BalancersUnused DynamoDB TablesUnused WorkSpace(s)
- Mis-provisioned Resources: RDS PIOPS Volumes Should Be Converted To General Purpose SSDEBS PIOPS Volumes Should Be Converted To General Purpose SSD
- Previous Generation Resources: Previous Generation EC2 Instances Should Be MigratedPrevious Generation RDS DB Instances Should Be MigratedPrevious Generation ElastiCache Nodes Should Be Migrated
- Reserved Purchase Recommendations: EC2 Reserved Instance Purchase RecommendationsRDS Reserved DB Instance Purchase RecommendationsElastiCache Reserved Node Purchase RecommendationsRedshift Reserved Nodes Purchase Recommendations
- Other: Excessive Costs Incurred For A Glacier RestoreConvert to RDS SQL Server Web Edition
