# Viewing your savings opportunities
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You can view details about your recommended actions on the **Savings opportunities** page. Use filters to refine the list of savings opportunities, and learn more about each recommendation by using a split-view panel. For deeper analysis of any recommendation, select it and choose **Analyze with Amazon Q**.

You can also group related recommendations. Cost Optimization Hub identifies recommended actions that interact with each other, and it reduces estimated aggregated savings based on the degree of overlap.

Cost Optimization Hub deduplicates amongst resource optimization strategies and proposes the recommendation with the highest savings. It also considers the reduction in usage by implementing the recommendations.

For example, an EC2 instance can either be deleted or rightsized, but not both. When Cost Optimization Hub estimates aggregated savings for the instance, it chooses the actions with the highest savings (in this case, delete), and ignores the savings from rightsizing.

Cost Optimization Hub also deduplicates amongst Savings Plans and Reserved Instances recommendations. It defaults to commitment options that offer the highest overall savings, prioritizing Compute Savings Plans for their flexibility and broader resource coverage. These recommendations typically favor three-year all upfront options. You can customize these in Cost Optimization Hub preferences. For more information, see [Commitment preferences](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/coh-preferences.html#coh-commitment-preferences).

**Note**  
When you use billing transfer as a bill source account, your estimated savings in Cost Optimization Hub might not match the effective savings data in your AWS Cost and Usage Report, Cost Explorer, and Bills page. This is because Cost Optimization Hub doesn't use custom data generated by Billing Conductor.

**Topics**
+ [Viewing recommended actions and estimated savings](coh-view-recommendations.md)
+ [Grouping related recommendations](coh-group-recommendations.md)

# Viewing recommended actions and estimated savings
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Use the following procedure to view a recommended action and estimated savings for a specific resource ID.

1. On the **Savings opportunities** page, under **Resources with estimated savings**, choose a row in the table.

   This opens a split-view panel with a recommended action and estimated savings for your chosen resource.

   The recommended action includes the following information:
   + **Usage:** The usage based on a 14-day lookback period.
   + **Estimated cost (before discounts):** The savings estimate using AWS public (On-Demand) pricing without incorporating any discounts.
   + **Estimated other discounts:** Estimated other discounts include all discounts that are not itemized, which includes Free Tier. Itemized discounts include Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.
   + **Estimated cost (after discounts):** The savings estimate incorporating all discounts with AWS, such as Reserved Instances and Savings Plans.
   + **Estimated unused net amortized commitments:** The net amortized Savings Plans and Reserved Instances costs included in the cost of the current instance but can't be used for the recommended instance.
   + **Estimated monthly savings:** The estimated monthly savings amount for the recommendation.
   + **Estimated savings percentage:** The estimated savings percentage relative to the total cost.

1. Based on the recommended action, you can choose to view the recommendation in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console, or you can open it in AWS Compute Optimizer or the relevant console.

# Grouping related recommendations
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Use the following procedure to view related recommendations and their estimated savings.

1. On the **Savings opportunities** page, choose **Group related recommendations**.

1. Choose a row in the table.

   This opens a split-view panel with a choice of recommended actions for your chosen resource type.

1. Under **Recommended actions**, select one of the recommended actions.

   This updates the recommended action details on the left-hand side and the estimated savings on the right.

1. Based on the recommended action, you can choose to view the recommendation in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console, or you can open it in AWS Compute Optimizer or the relevant console.