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This topic describes the Insights Recommendations product.

Recommendations give you actionable recommendation that you can implement to to save costs. Each recommendation shows the potential savings, the actual recommendation, and the effort required to implement it.

Recommendations are shown on the Recommendations page:

Zesty gives recommendations for these, and other services and products:

S3 buckets using Standard storage
S3 Cross-Region data transfer
Unused resources:
- S3 unused buckets
- ELB, EBS, and EIP resources
RDS savings
Extended Support fees for EKS clusters and RDS databases
Commitment Manager and Zesty Disk products

To see the full list of recommendations, and what you can learn from each, expand this box.

Category	Recommendation	Description	Actions*
S3 visibility	S3 Cross-Region data transfer	S3 buckets are incurring excess costs	See detailed, filtered bucket costs and recommendations on the S3 page
	S3 Intelligent-Tiering	S3 buckets are using Standard storage	See detailed, filtered bucket costs and recommendations on the S3 page
Unused resources	Unused CloudWatch Log Groups	CloudWatch Log Groups are unused	See detailed, filtered costs and recommendation on the Unused Resources page
	Unused EBS resources	EBS volumes are unused, unattached to an instance or unavailable	See detailed, filtered costs and recommendation on the Unused Resources page
	Unused EIP resources	EIPs aren’t attached to an EC2 instance	See detailed, filtered costs and recommendation on the Unused Resources page
	Unused ELB resources	ELBs have empty or unhealthy targets	See detailed, filtered costs and recommendation on the Unused Resources page
	Unused Kinesis Data Streams	Kinesis Data Streams are unused	See detailed, filtered costs and recommendation on Unused Resources page
	Unused NAT gateways	NAT gateways are processing low amounts of data	See detailed, filtered costs and recommendation on the Unused Resources page
	Unused S3 buckets	S3 buckets are rarely accessed	See detailed, filtered costs and recommendation on the Unused Resources page
	Unused VPC PrivateLinks	VPC endpoints are unused	See detailed, filtered costs and recommendation on the Unused Resources page
Extended support	EKS cluster is EOL	EKS clusters have versions that are past the support end of life and are subject to Extended Support fees	Download the EKS cluster data to a CSV
	RDS database is EOL	RDS databases have versions that are past the support end of life and are subject to Extended Support fees	Download the RDS database cluster data to a CSV
RDS savings	Maximize RDS savings	RDS workloads are not fully covered	See detailed, filtered RDS costs and recommendations on the RDS page
Zesty products	Optimize EC2 commitments coverage	Some EC2 workloads are incurring On-Demand pricing	See savings on the Commitment Manager page
	Save more with Zesty Disk	Rightsizing your EBS volumes can significantly reduce EBS storage cost	See savings from the Zesty Disk product

You can see general info about a recommendation by hovering over the recommendation and clicking More info.

To see specific, actionable recommendations, click the Explore… button to the right of the row.

(To see these detailed recommendations, you need to be subscribed to Insights. If your account isn’t subscribed, let us show you the benefits. Talk to us through the “Contact us” dialog that is displayed in place of the specific recommendations.)

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