AWS Compute Optimizer now supports idle resource recommendation

Today, AWS announces that AWS Compute Optimizer now supports recommendations to help you identify idle AWS resources. With this new recommendation type, you will be able to identify resources that are un-used and may be candidates for turning off or deleting, resulting in cost savings.

With the new idle resource recommendation, you will be able to identify idle EC2 instances, EC2 Auto Scaling groups, EBS volumes, ECS services running on Fargate, and RDS instances. You can view the total savings potential of stopping or deleting these idle resources. Compute Optimizer analyzes 14 consecutive days of utilization history to validate if resources are idle to provide trustworthy savings opportunities. You can also view idle resource recommendation across all AWS accounts in your organization through the Cost Optimization Hub, with de-duplicated estimated savings with other recommendations on the same resources.

For more information about the AWS Regions where Compute Optimizer is available, see AWS Region table.

For more information about Compute Optimizer, visit our product page and documentation. You can start using AWS Compute Optimizer through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, and AWS SDK.