Viewing the dashboard - Amazon Cost Management
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Viewing the dashboard

Use the following procedure to view the dashboard and your cost optimization opportunities.

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Management Console and open the Amazon Billing and Cost Management console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/costmanagement/home.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Cost Optimization Hub.

    By default, the dashboard displays an overview of cost optimization opportunities for Amazon resources across all Amazon Regions in the account that you're currently signed in to.

  3. You can perform the following actions on the dashboard:

    • To view the cost optimization findings for a particular Amazon Region in the account, choose the Region in the chart.

    • To view the cost optimization findings for resources in a particular account, under Aggregate estimated savings by, choose Amazon account, and then choose an account ID in the chart.

      Note

      Viewing cost optimization opportunities for resources in other accounts is available only if you're signed in to a management account of an organization, and you have opted in all member accounts of the organization.

    • To view cost optimization findings by resource type, under Aggregate estimated savings by, choose Resource type.

    • To view recommended actions, under Aggregate estimated savings by, choose Recommended action.

    • To filter findings on the dashboard, under Filter, choose from the filter options.

    • To go to the list of resources available for optimization, choose View opportunities.

Switching the dashboard view

The Cost Optimization Hub dashboard provides you two styles for viewing your cost optimization opportunities:

  • Chart view

  • Table view

You can set the style by choosing one of the views on the top right corner of the chart or table.