The recommendations are consumed from the AWS Cost Management Explorer-Compute Optimizer and then processed by our platform's algorithm.

Compute Optimizer

This recommendation suggest using latest generation of instances to get the best performance and pricing.

This recommendation identifies Idle EC2 instances which can be stoped or deleted.

This recommendation identifies EC2 instances that are stopped but still carry additional EBS and/or Public IP charges. this is being checked for instances that are stopped up to 7 days. (subject to preferences).

Recommendation to commit to a certain Savings plan, based on daily hourly usage being above the stated commitment.

AWS charges 0.005 per IP, per hour for all public IPv4 addresses, whether it's attached to AWS service or not.

This recommendation identifies AWS charges for inter-Availability Zones data transfer between Amazon EC2 instances within the same region. We identify resources that have inter-Availability Zones Data Transfer and suggest to co-locate it within the same Availability Zone to avoid unnecessary data transfer charges.