# Recommendations

> Actionable opportunities to reduce your cloud spend

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The Recommendations page surfaces actionable opportunities to reduce your cloud spend, with a page per cloud: AWS recommendations come from AWS Cost Optimization Hub, and Azure recommendations come from Azure Advisor.

Each recommendation identifies a specific resource that could be optimized, shows the estimated monthly savings, and describes what action to take. Recommendations are informational: changes are made in your cloud provider, not from this page.

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AWS savings figures are estimated on a before-discount (list price) basis. Azure monthly savings are derived from Advisor's annual savings figure.
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## Access the Recommendations page

1. Log in to the CloudBolt Platform.
1. In the sidebar, select **Recommendations** to expand it, then choose **AWS** or **Azure**.

## Recommendation categories

AWS recommendations are organized into four categories:

- **Rightsizing:** Resources that are overprovisioned relative to their actual usage. Actions include: downsizing to a smaller instance type, migrating to Graviton-based instances, or upgrading to a newer generation.
- **Idle:** Resources that show little to no usage and could be stopped or deleted.
- **Commitment:** Opportunities to purchase Savings Plans or Reserved Instances based on your usage patterns.
- **Configuration:** Other optimization actions that fall outside the above categories.

Azure recommendations are categorized by Advisor's recommendation type and carry an **Impact** rating of High, Medium, or Low.

## Dashboard

Each provider's page opens with a summary, a **Savings by Category** chart, and a table of the top accounts (AWS) or subscriptions (Azure) by savings opportunity.

**AWS** KPI cards:

- **Potential Savings:** The total estimated monthly savings across all recommendations, deduplicated so resources with multiple options are counted once using their highest-savings recommendation.
- **Active Recommendations:** The number of unique resources with at least one recommendation.
- **Accounts Affected** (or **Resources Affected**): The number of accounts or resources with optimization opportunities.
- **Avg Savings / Rec:** The average monthly savings per resource.

**Azure** KPI cards: **Potential Savings**, **Recommendations**, **Subscriptions Affected**, and counts of **High Impact**, **Medium Impact**, and **Low Impact** recommendations.

## Recommendations table

The recommendations table lists every available opportunity.

**AWS** columns: **Category** (color-coded), **Account**, **Resource** (select to view the resource detail page), **Current** and **Recommended** configuration, **Savings/mo**, **Savings %**, **Effort** (Low, Medium, or High), and **Source** (the originating AWS service). Filter by Category, Effort, Source, Account, Region, and Action Type.

**Azure** columns: **Subscription**, **Resource Group**, **Resource**, **Type**, **Category**, **Impact**, **SKU** (the current-to-recommended SKU change), **Term**, **Lookback**, and **Savings/mo**. Filter by Impact, Term, Subscription, and Category.

## Account view

On AWS, select an account to view all recommendations scoped to that account. The layout matches the main dashboard (KPI cards, category breakdown, and a recommendations table) filtered to a single account. (Azure does not have a per-subscription drill-down view.)

## Resource detail

Select a resource to view every recommendation for that resource.

**AWS** detail shows:

- **Resource Information:** The resource ARN, current type, current configuration, account, region, source, and when the data was last refreshed.
- **Recommendation Cards:** One card per optimization option, each showing: the recommended configuration, estimated monthly savings, estimated cost after optimization, savings percentage, implementation effort, whether a restart is required, and whether the change is rollback-safe. If there are multiple options, the highest-savings recommendation is highlighted.

**Azure** detail shows the resource's subscription, resource group, type, and location; the recommendation's category, impact, term, lookback period, potential savings, and SKU change; a **Problem & Solution** panel explaining the issue and the fix; and a collapsible **Raw Advisor Properties** section with the full Advisor record. An **Open in Azure portal** link jumps to the resource.