# Understanding your savings opportunities


You can use the **Overview** page on the Amazon Cost Management console to see any Savings Plans that you own, in addition to potential savings opportunities.

**Note**  
If you currently don't own any Savings Plans, the **Overview** page shows a summary of how Savings Plans work, along with recommended Savings Plans purchases based on your past usage.<a name="ce-sp-accessoverview"></a>

**To access the Savings Plans overview**

1. Open the Billing and Cost Management console at [https://console.amazonaws.cn/costmanagement/](https://console.amazonaws.cn/costmanagement/).

1. In the navigation pane, under **Savings Plans**, choose **Overview**.

Your savings opportunities are shown under **Additional savings opportunities** or **Savings opportunities**, depending on whether you’ve made past Savings Plans purchases or not.

To view your detailed recommendations, choose **View recommended savings plans**. To learn more about how your Savings Plans recommendations are calculated, see [Understanding Savings Plans recommendations](sp-recommendations.md).

# Viewing Savings Plans details


After you purchase Savings Plans, you see a **Details** section in your **Overview** page. The **Details** section shows the following metrics related to your purchased Savings Plans:
+ **Type** – Determines the summary by Savings Plans type.
+ **MTD/YTD plans** – The number of Savings Plans that have been active during the selected period.
+ **MTD/YTD commitment** – The total amortized commitments during the selected period.
+ **MTD/YTD utilization** – The average utilization percentage during the selected period.
+ **MTD/YTD savings** – The total savings from Savings Plans during the selected period.

To see details of the Savings Plans you own, choose **View all** in the **Details** section, or choose **Inventory** in the left navigation pane.

# Managing your Savings Plans alerts


You can track your Savings Plans expirations and upcoming queued Savings Plans in Cost Explorer. You can use Savings Plans alerts to receive advance email alerts 1, 7, 30, or 60 days before your Savings Plans expiration date, or in when a commitment is queued for purchase. These notifications also alert you on the expiration date, and can be sent to up to 10 email recipients.

For information about how to manage your Savings Plans alert subscriptions, see [View, create, update, and delete reservation and Savings Plans alerts](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/cost-management/latest/userguide/billing-example-policies.html#example-view-ce-expiration) in the *Amazon Billing User Guide*.<a name="ce-sp-alerts-process"></a>

**To turn on Savings Plans expiration or queued purchases alerts**

1. Open the Billing and Cost Management console at [https://console.amazonaws.cn/costmanagement/](https://console.amazonaws.cn/costmanagement/).

1. In the navigation pane, under **Savings Plans**, choose **Overview**.

1. Choose **Manage alert subscriptions**.

1. In the **Alert frequency** section, select all of the dates that you want to receive your alerts.

1. In the **Email recipients** section, enter your recipients' email addresses.

1. Choose **Save**.

Amazon monitors your Savings Plans settings and automatically sends you alerts according to your preferences.