What types of cost-saving recommendations does the Resource Optimization menu provide?
OpsNow FinOps Plus analyzes the utilization and operational status of cloud resources and classifies cost-saving opportunities into the following four optimization types:
✅ Optimization Categories
- Idle
- Resources with little or no usage over a specific time period
- Identifies underused instances that can be removed to eliminate waste
- Downsize
- Overprovisioned resources that can operate effectively with lower specs
- Recommends smaller instance types to reduce costs without sacrificing performance
- Modernize
- Older instance types that can be replaced with newer, more cost-efficient ones
- Examples include recommendations such as t2 → t3 or m4 → m6g
- Upsize (disabled by default)
- Resources consistently running at high utilization
- Suggests upgrading to higher-performance specs for stability and efficiency
These recommendations are automatically generated based on performance metrics defined by each cloud vendor (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Users can also configure custom thresholds such as CPU below 10% for over 30 days, depending on organizational policy.
📌 These optimization types help organizations eliminate waste,
while turning resource insights into actionable cost savings across multi-cloud environments.
