# Smart cost recommendations for cloud cost optimization

Gain better control over your cloud spending with automated, data-driven cost recommendations. Maximize efficiency and minimize waste in your cloud infrastructure.

## What are Cost Recommendations?

Cost Recommendations in CloudSpend use intelligent analysis to identify areas of potential savings across AWS, Azure, and GCP. It automatically flags underutilized resources, suggests rightsizing options, and highlights where you can save using Reserved Instances or Savings Plans. These recommendations are unbiased and continuously updated, making it easy to take action without deep manual audits. By surfacing cost-saving opportunities across services and accounts, this feature helps DevOps and FinOps teams reduce cloud waste, improve efficiency, and align infrastructure usage with financial goals—ensuring maximum return on cloud investments.

## Cloud cost optimization through AI driven recommendations

### Improved resource efficiency

#### Drive cloud cost efficiency

Industry studies show that up to 30% of cloud spending is wasted due to inefficient resource allocation and underutilized services. Cloud cost recommendations help identify opportunities to reduce waste, optimize usage, and cut unnecessary expenses. This ensures your infrastructure is always cost-efficient.

![Improved resource efficiency](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/cloudspend/cs-rec-efficiency.svg)

### Automated cloud cost optimization

#### Save developer time and increase time to market

Automated cost recommendations continuously analyze your cloud infrastructure, providing actionable insights without manual intervention. As your cloud environment evolves, recommendations are updated to reflect the latest opportunities for savings.

![Automated cloud cost optimization](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/cloudspend/cs-rec-automated.svg)

### Multi-cloud cost savings

#### Drive multi-cloud cost optimization

Receive unbiased, best-in-market cost recommendations across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Get targeted advice on savings, rightsizing resources, and leveraging committed use discounts to optimize your cloud spend across platforms.

![Multi-cloud cost savings](https://cdn.manageengine.com/sites/meweb/images/cloudspend/cs-rec-multi-cloud.svg)

## Featured resources

### Blog

#### Optimize cloud costs and performance with CloudSpend's Recommendations report

The Recommendations report in ManageEngine CloudSpend is designed to simplify this process, offering tailored insights for AWS, Azure, and GCP accounts.

[Read more](https://blogs.manageengine.com/cloudspend/2024/11/27/cloud-cost-recommendations.html)

### Articles

#### In-depth guides to FinOps

Go deep on cost optimization, tagging, governance, AI spend, and more, with practical guidance you can act on.

[Read articles](https://www.manageengine.com/cloudspend/articles/)

### FinOps Glossary

#### Cloud cost terms, made clear

Look up the FinOps, cloud cost, and AI spend terms your team keeps running into, explained in plain language.

[Browse the glossary](https://www.manageengine.com/cloudspend/finops-glossary/)

### User Guide

#### Help and documentation

Get set up quickly and learn how to use every CloudSpend feature, step by step.

[Read more](https://www.manageengine.com/cloudspend/help/recommendations-report.html)