diff --git a/.betterer.results b/.betterer.results
index cfc75962fc6..ee5b0e9e79d 100644
--- a/.betterer.results
+++ b/.betterer.results
@@ -2401,6 +2401,13 @@ exports[`better eslint`] = {
       [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "3"],
       [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "4"]
     ],
+    "public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/SaveDashboardForm.tsx:5381": [
+      [0, 0, 0, "Use data-testid for E2E selectors instead of aria-label", "0"],
+      [0, 0, 0, "Use data-testid for E2E selectors instead of aria-label", "1"]
+    ],
+    "public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/shared.tsx:5381": [
+      [0, 0, 0, "Use data-testid for E2E selectors instead of aria-label", "0"]
+    ],
     "public/app/features/dashboard-scene/scene/DashboardScene.test.tsx:5381": [
       [0, 0, 0, "Unexpected any. Specify a different type.", "0"]
     ],
diff --git a/public/app/features/browse-dashboards/api/browseDashboardsAPI.ts b/public/app/features/browse-dashboards/api/browseDashboardsAPI.ts
index 0324a580a28..315381d1632 100644
--- a/public/app/features/browse-dashboards/api/browseDashboardsAPI.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/browse-dashboards/api/browseDashboardsAPI.ts
@@ -275,9 +275,10 @@ export const browseDashboardsAPI = createApi({
     }),
     // save an existing dashboard
     saveDashboard: builder.mutation<SaveDashboardResponseDTO, SaveDashboardCommand>({
-      query: ({ dashboard, folderUid, message, overwrite }) => ({
+      query: ({ dashboard, folderUid, message, overwrite, showErrorAlert }) => ({
         url: `/dashboards/db`,
         method: 'POST',
+        showErrorAlert,
         data: {
           dashboard,
           folderUid,
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/SaveDashboardAsForm.tsx b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/SaveDashboardAsForm.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d8a72c7beba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/SaveDashboardAsForm.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,196 @@
+import React from 'react';
+import { UseFormSetValue, useForm } from 'react-hook-form';
+
+import { Dashboard } from '@grafana/schema';
+import { Button, Input, Switch, Field, Label, TextArea, Stack, Alert, Box } from '@grafana/ui';
+import { FolderPicker } from 'app/core/components/Select/FolderPicker';
+import { validationSrv } from 'app/features/manage-dashboards/services/ValidationSrv';
+
+import { DashboardScene } from '../scene/DashboardScene';
+
+import { SaveDashboardDrawer } from './SaveDashboardDrawer';
+import { DashboardChangeInfo, NameAlreadyExistsError, SaveButton, isNameExistsError } from './shared';
+import { useDashboardSave } from './useSaveDashboard';
+
+interface SaveDashboardAsFormDTO {
+  firstName?: string;
+  title: string;
+  description: string;
+  folder: { uid?: string; title?: string };
+  copyTags: boolean;
+}
+
+export interface Props {
+  dashboard: DashboardScene;
+  drawer: SaveDashboardDrawer;
+  changeInfo: DashboardChangeInfo;
+}
+
+export function SaveDashboardAsForm({ dashboard, drawer, changeInfo }: Props) {
+  const { changedSaveModel } = changeInfo;
+
+  const { register, handleSubmit, setValue, formState, getValues } = useForm<SaveDashboardAsFormDTO>({
+    mode: 'onBlur',
+    defaultValues: {
+      title: changeInfo.isNew ? changedSaveModel.title! : `${changedSaveModel.title} Copy`,
+      description: changedSaveModel.description ?? '',
+      folder: {
+        uid: dashboard.state.meta.folderUid,
+        title: dashboard.state.meta.folderTitle,
+      },
+      copyTags: false,
+    },
+  });
+  const { errors, isValid, defaultValues } = formState;
+  const formValues = getValues();
+
+  const { state, onSaveDashboard } = useDashboardSave(false);
+
+  const onSave = async (overwrite: boolean) => {
+    const data = getValues();
+
+    const dashboardToSave: Dashboard = getSaveAsDashboardSaveModel(changedSaveModel, data, changeInfo.isNew);
+    const result = await onSaveDashboard(dashboard, dashboardToSave, { overwrite, folderUid: data.folder.uid });
+
+    if (result.status === 'success') {
+      dashboard.closeModal();
+    }
+  };
+
+  const cancelButton = (
+    <Button variant="secondary" onClick={() => dashboard.closeModal()} fill="outline">
+      Cancel
+    </Button>
+  );
+
+  const saveButton = (overwrite: boolean) => (
+    <SaveButton isValid={isValid} isLoading={state.loading} onSave={onSave} overwrite={overwrite} />
+  );
+
+  function renderFooter(error?: Error) {
+    if (isNameExistsError(error)) {
+      return <NameAlreadyExistsError cancelButton={cancelButton} saveButton={saveButton} />;
+    }
+
+    return (
+      <>
+        {error && (
+          <Alert title="Failed to save dashboard" severity="error">
+            <p>{error.message}</p>
+          </Alert>
+        )}
+        <Stack alignItems="center">
+          {cancelButton}
+          {saveButton(false)}
+        </Stack>
+      </>
+    );
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <form onSubmit={handleSubmit(() => onSave(false))}>
+      <Field
+        label={<TitleFieldLabel dashboard={changedSaveModel} onChange={setValue} />}
+        invalid={!!errors.title}
+        error={errors.title?.message}
+      >
+        <Input
+          {...register('title', { required: 'Required', validate: validateDashboardName })}
+          aria-label="Save dashboard title field"
+          autoFocus
+        />
+      </Field>
+      <Field
+        label={<DescriptionLabel dashboard={changedSaveModel} onChange={setValue} />}
+        invalid={!!errors.description}
+        error={errors.description?.message}
+      >
+        <TextArea
+          {...register('description', { required: false })}
+          aria-label="Save dashboard description field"
+          autoFocus
+        />
+      </Field>
+
+      <Field label="Folder">
+        <FolderPicker
+          onChange={(uid: string | undefined, title: string | undefined) => setValue('folder', { uid, title })}
+          // Old folder picker fields
+          value={formValues.folder.uid}
+          initialTitle={defaultValues!.folder!.title}
+          dashboardId={changedSaveModel.id ?? undefined}
+          enableCreateNew
+        />
+      </Field>
+      {!changeInfo.isNew && (
+        <Field label="Copy tags">
+          <Switch {...register('copyTags')} />
+        </Field>
+      )}
+      <Box paddingTop={2}>{renderFooter(state.error)}</Box>
+    </form>
+  );
+}
+
+export interface TitleLabelProps {
+  dashboard: Dashboard;
+  onChange: UseFormSetValue<SaveDashboardAsFormDTO>;
+}
+
+export function TitleFieldLabel(props: TitleLabelProps) {
+  return (
+    <Stack justifyContent="space-between">
+      <Label htmlFor="description">Title</Label>
+      {/* {config.featureToggles.dashgpt && isNew && (
+                <GenAIDashDescriptionButton
+                  onGenerate={(description) => field.onChange(description)}
+                  dashboard={dashboard}
+                />
+              )} */}
+    </Stack>
+  );
+}
+
+export interface DescriptionLabelProps {
+  dashboard: Dashboard;
+  onChange: UseFormSetValue<SaveDashboardAsFormDTO>;
+}
+
+export function DescriptionLabel(props: DescriptionLabelProps) {
+  return (
+    <Stack justifyContent="space-between">
+      <Label htmlFor="description">Description</Label>
+      {/* {config.featureToggles.dashgpt && isNew && (
+                <GenAIDashDescriptionButton
+                  onGenerate={(description) => field.onChange(description)}
+                  dashboard={dashboard}
+                />
+              )} */}
+    </Stack>
+  );
+}
+
+async function validateDashboardName(title: string, formValues: SaveDashboardAsFormDTO) {
+  if (title === formValues.folder.title?.trim()) {
+    return 'Dashboard name cannot be the same as folder name';
+  }
+
+  try {
+    await validationSrv.validateNewDashboardName(formValues.folder.uid ?? 'general', title);
+    return true;
+  } catch (e) {
+    return e instanceof Error ? e.message : 'Dashboard name is invalid';
+  }
+}
+
+function getSaveAsDashboardSaveModel(source: Dashboard, form: SaveDashboardAsFormDTO, isNew?: boolean): Dashboard {
+  // TODO remove old alerts and thresholds when copying (See getSaveAsDashboardClone)
+  return {
+    ...source,
+    id: null,
+    uid: '',
+    title: form.title,
+    description: form.description,
+    tags: isNew || form.copyTags ? source.tags : [],
+  };
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/SaveDashboardDrawer.test.tsx b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/SaveDashboardDrawer.test.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a4eeff81004
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/SaveDashboardDrawer.test.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,207 @@
+import { screen, render } from '@testing-library/react';
+import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event';
+import React from 'react';
+import { TestProvider } from 'test/helpers/TestProvider';
+
+import { selectors } from '@grafana/e2e-selectors';
+import { sceneGraph } from '@grafana/scenes';
+import { SaveDashboardResponseDTO } from 'app/types';
+
+import { transformSaveModelToScene } from '../serialization/transformSaveModelToScene';
+import { transformSceneToSaveModel } from '../serialization/transformSceneToSaveModel';
+
+import { SaveDashboardDrawer } from './SaveDashboardDrawer';
+
+jest.mock('app/features/manage-dashboards/services/ValidationSrv', () => ({
+  validationSrv: {
+    validateNewDashboardName: () => true,
+  },
+}));
+
+const saveDashboardMutationMock = jest.fn();
+
+jest.mock('app/features/browse-dashboards/api/browseDashboardsAPI', () => ({
+  ...jest.requireActual('app/features/browse-dashboards/api/browseDashboardsAPI'),
+  useSaveDashboardMutation: () => [saveDashboardMutationMock],
+}));
+
+describe('SaveDashboardDrawer', () => {
+  describe('Given an already saved dashboard', () => {
+    it('should render save drawer with only message textarea', async () => {
+      setup().openAndRender();
+
+      expect(await screen.findByText('Save dashboard')).toBeInTheDocument();
+      expect(screen.queryByText('Save current time range')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+      expect(screen.getByText('No changes to save')).toBeInTheDocument();
+      expect(screen.queryByLabelText('Tab Changes')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    });
+
+    it('When there are no changes', async () => {
+      setup().openAndRender();
+      expect(screen.getByText('No changes to save')).toBeInTheDocument();
+    });
+
+    it('When time range changed show save time range option', async () => {
+      const { dashboard, openAndRender } = setup();
+
+      sceneGraph.getTimeRange(dashboard).setState({ from: 'now-1h', to: 'now' });
+
+      openAndRender();
+
+      expect(await screen.findByText('Save dashboard')).toBeInTheDocument();
+      expect(screen.queryByText('Save current time range')).toBeInTheDocument();
+    });
+
+    it('Should update diff when including time range is', async () => {
+      const { dashboard, openAndRender } = setup();
+
+      sceneGraph.getTimeRange(dashboard).setState({ from: 'now-1h', to: 'now' });
+
+      openAndRender();
+
+      expect(await screen.findByText('Save dashboard')).toBeInTheDocument();
+      expect(screen.queryByText('Save current time range')).toBeInTheDocument();
+      expect(screen.queryByLabelText('Tab Changes')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+
+      await userEvent.click(screen.getByLabelText(selectors.pages.SaveDashboardModal.saveTimerange));
+
+      expect(await screen.findByLabelText('Tab Changes')).toBeInTheDocument();
+    });
+
+    it('Can show changes', async () => {
+      const { dashboard, openAndRender } = setup();
+
+      dashboard.setState({ title: 'New title' });
+
+      openAndRender();
+
+      await userEvent.click(await screen.findByLabelText('Tab Changes'));
+
+      expect(await screen.findByText('JSON Model')).toBeInTheDocument();
+    });
+
+    it('Can save', async () => {
+      const { dashboard, openAndRender } = setup();
+
+      dashboard.setState({ title: 'New title' });
+
+      openAndRender();
+
+      mockSaveDashboard();
+
+      await userEvent.click(await screen.findByLabelText(selectors.pages.SaveDashboardModal.save));
+
+      const dataSent = saveDashboardMutationMock.mock.calls[0][0];
+      expect(dataSent.dashboard.title).toEqual('New title');
+      expect(dashboard.state.version).toEqual(11);
+      expect(dashboard.state.uid).toEqual('my-uid-from-resp');
+      expect(dashboard.state.isDirty).toEqual(false);
+    });
+
+    it('Can handle save errors and overwrite', async () => {
+      const { dashboard, openAndRender } = setup();
+
+      dashboard.setState({ title: 'New title' });
+
+      openAndRender();
+
+      mockSaveDashboard({ saveError: 'version-mismatch' });
+
+      await userEvent.click(await screen.findByLabelText(selectors.pages.SaveDashboardModal.save));
+
+      expect(await screen.findByText('Someone else has updated this dashboard')).toBeInTheDocument();
+      expect(await screen.findByText('Save and overwrite')).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+      // Now save and overwrite
+      await userEvent.click(await screen.findByLabelText(selectors.pages.SaveDashboardModal.save));
+
+      const dataSent = saveDashboardMutationMock.mock.calls[1][0];
+      expect(dataSent.overwrite).toEqual(true);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('Save as copy', () => {
+    it('Should show save as form', async () => {
+      const { openAndRender } = setup();
+      openAndRender(true);
+
+      expect(await screen.findByText('Save dashboard copy')).toBeInTheDocument();
+
+      mockSaveDashboard();
+
+      await userEvent.click(await screen.findByLabelText(selectors.pages.SaveDashboardModal.save));
+
+      const dataSent = saveDashboardMutationMock.mock.calls[0][0];
+      expect(dataSent.dashboard.uid).toEqual('');
+    });
+  });
+});
+
+interface MockBackendApiOptions {
+  saveError: 'version-mismatch' | 'name-exists' | 'plugin-dashboard';
+}
+
+function mockSaveDashboard(options: Partial<MockBackendApiOptions> = {}) {
+  saveDashboardMutationMock.mockClear();
+
+  if (options.saveError) {
+    saveDashboardMutationMock.mockResolvedValue({
+      error: { status: 412, data: { status: 'version-mismatch', message: 'sad face' } },
+    });
+
+    return;
+  }
+
+  saveDashboardMutationMock.mockResolvedValue({
+    data: {
+      id: 10,
+      uid: 'my-uid-from-resp',
+      slug: 'my-slug-from-resp',
+      status: 'success',
+      url: 'my-url',
+      version: 11,
+      ...options,
+    } as SaveDashboardResponseDTO,
+  });
+}
+
+let cleanUp = () => {};
+
+function setup() {
+  const dashboard = transformSaveModelToScene({
+    dashboard: {
+      title: 'hello',
+      uid: 'my-uid',
+      schemaVersion: 30,
+      panels: [],
+      version: 10,
+    },
+    meta: {},
+  });
+
+  // Clear any data layers
+  dashboard.setState({ $data: undefined });
+
+  const initialSaveModel = transformSceneToSaveModel(dashboard);
+  dashboard.setInitialSaveModel(initialSaveModel);
+
+  cleanUp();
+  cleanUp = dashboard.activate();
+
+  dashboard.onEnterEditMode();
+
+  const openAndRender = (saveAsCopy?: boolean) => {
+    dashboard.openSaveDrawer({ saveAsCopy });
+    const drawer = dashboard.state.overlay as SaveDashboardDrawer;
+    render(
+      <TestProvider>
+        <drawer.Component model={drawer} />
+      </TestProvider>
+    );
+
+    return drawer;
+  };
+
+  //  await act(() => Promise.resolve());
+  return { dashboard, openAndRender };
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/SaveDashboardDrawer.tsx b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/SaveDashboardDrawer.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5598d6e8583
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/SaveDashboardDrawer.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+import React from 'react';
+
+import { SceneComponentProps, SceneObjectBase, SceneObjectState, SceneObjectRef } from '@grafana/scenes';
+import { Drawer, Tab, TabsBar } from '@grafana/ui';
+import { SaveDashboardDiff } from 'app/features/dashboard/components/SaveDashboard/SaveDashboardDiff';
+
+import { DashboardScene } from '../scene/DashboardScene';
+
+import { SaveDashboardAsForm } from './SaveDashboardAsForm';
+import { SaveDashboardForm } from './SaveDashboardForm';
+import { getSaveDashboardChange } from './shared';
+
+interface SaveDashboardDrawerState extends SceneObjectState {
+  dashboardRef: SceneObjectRef<DashboardScene>;
+  showDiff?: boolean;
+  saveTimeRange?: boolean;
+  saveVariables?: boolean;
+  saveAsCopy?: boolean;
+}
+
+export class SaveDashboardDrawer extends SceneObjectBase<SaveDashboardDrawerState> {
+  public onClose = () => {
+    this.state.dashboardRef.resolve().setState({ overlay: undefined });
+  };
+
+  public onToggleSaveTimeRange = () => {
+    this.setState({ saveTimeRange: !this.state.saveTimeRange });
+  };
+
+  public onToggleSaveVariables = () => {
+    this.setState({ saveTimeRange: !this.state.saveTimeRange });
+  };
+
+  static Component = ({ model }: SceneComponentProps<SaveDashboardDrawer>) => {
+    const { showDiff, saveAsCopy, saveTimeRange } = model.useState();
+    const changeInfo = getSaveDashboardChange(model.state.dashboardRef.resolve(), saveTimeRange);
+    const { changedSaveModel, initialSaveModel, diffs, diffCount } = changeInfo;
+    const dashboard = model.state.dashboardRef.resolve();
+
+    const tabs = (
+      <TabsBar>
+        <Tab label={'Details'} active={!showDiff} onChangeTab={() => model.setState({ showDiff: false })} />
+        {diffCount > 0 && (
+          <Tab
+            label={'Changes'}
+            active={showDiff}
+            onChangeTab={() => model.setState({ showDiff: true })}
+            counter={diffCount}
+          />
+        )}
+      </TabsBar>
+    );
+
+    let title = 'Save dashboard';
+    if (saveAsCopy) {
+      title = 'Save dashboard copy';
+    }
+
+    // else if (isProvisioned) {
+    //   title = 'Provisioned dashboard';
+    // }
+
+    const renderBody = () => {
+      if (showDiff) {
+        return <SaveDashboardDiff diff={diffs} oldValue={initialSaveModel} newValue={changedSaveModel} />;
+      }
+
+      if (saveAsCopy || changeInfo.isNew) {
+        return <SaveDashboardAsForm dashboard={dashboard} changeInfo={changeInfo} drawer={model} />;
+      }
+
+      return <SaveDashboardForm dashboard={dashboard} changeInfo={changeInfo} drawer={model} />;
+    };
+
+    return (
+      <Drawer title={title} subtitle={dashboard.state.title} onClose={model.onClose} tabs={tabs}>
+        {renderBody()}
+      </Drawer>
+    );
+  };
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/SaveDashboardForm.tsx b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/SaveDashboardForm.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8601cd0afe0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/SaveDashboardForm.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+import React, { useState } from 'react';
+
+import { selectors } from '@grafana/e2e-selectors';
+import { Button, Checkbox, TextArea, Stack, Alert, Box, Field } from '@grafana/ui';
+import { SaveDashboardOptions } from 'app/features/dashboard/components/SaveDashboard/types';
+
+import { DashboardScene } from '../scene/DashboardScene';
+
+import { SaveDashboardDrawer } from './SaveDashboardDrawer';
+import {
+  DashboardChangeInfo,
+  NameAlreadyExistsError,
+  SaveButton,
+  isNameExistsError,
+  isPluginDashboardError,
+  isVersionMismatchError,
+} from './shared';
+import { useDashboardSave } from './useSaveDashboard';
+
+export interface Props {
+  dashboard: DashboardScene;
+  drawer: SaveDashboardDrawer;
+  changeInfo: DashboardChangeInfo;
+}
+
+export function SaveDashboardForm({ dashboard, drawer, changeInfo }: Props) {
+  const { saveVariables = false, saveTimeRange = false } = drawer.useState();
+  const { changedSaveModel, hasChanges, hasTimeChanged, hasVariableValuesChanged } = changeInfo;
+
+  const { state, onSaveDashboard } = useDashboardSave(false);
+  const [options, setOptions] = useState<SaveDashboardOptions>({
+    folderUid: dashboard.state.meta.folderUid,
+  });
+
+  const onSave = async (overwrite: boolean) => {
+    const result = await onSaveDashboard(dashboard, changedSaveModel, { ...options, overwrite });
+    if (result.status === 'success') {
+      dashboard.closeModal();
+    }
+  };
+
+  const cancelButton = (
+    <Button variant="secondary" onClick={() => dashboard.closeModal()} fill="outline">
+      Cancel
+    </Button>
+  );
+
+  const saveButton = (overwrite: boolean) => (
+    <SaveButton isValid={hasChanges} isLoading={state.loading} onSave={onSave} overwrite={overwrite} />
+  );
+
+  function renderFooter(error?: Error) {
+    if (isVersionMismatchError(error)) {
+      return (
+        <Alert title="Someone else has updated this dashboard" severity="error">
+          <p>Would you still like to save this dashboard?</p>
+          <Box paddingTop={2}>
+            <Stack alignItems="center">
+              {cancelButton}
+              {saveButton(true)}
+            </Stack>
+          </Box>
+        </Alert>
+      );
+    }
+
+    if (isNameExistsError(error)) {
+      return <NameAlreadyExistsError cancelButton={cancelButton} saveButton={saveButton} />;
+    }
+
+    if (isPluginDashboardError(error)) {
+      return (
+        <Alert title="Plugin dashboard" severity="error">
+          <p>
+            Your changes will be lost when you update the plugin. Use <strong>Save As</strong> to create custom version.
+          </p>
+          <Box paddingTop={2}>
+            <Stack alignItems="center">
+              {cancelButton}
+              {saveButton(true)}
+            </Stack>
+          </Box>
+        </Alert>
+      );
+    }
+
+    return (
+      <>
+        {error && (
+          <Alert title="Failed to save dashboard" severity="error">
+            <p>{error.message}</p>
+          </Alert>
+        )}
+        <Stack alignItems="center">
+          {cancelButton}
+          {saveButton(false)}
+          {!hasChanges && <div>No changes to save</div>}
+        </Stack>
+      </>
+    );
+  }
+
+  return (
+    <Stack gap={0} direction="column">
+      {hasTimeChanged && (
+        <Field label="Save current time range" description="Will make current time range the new default">
+          <Checkbox
+            id="save-timerange"
+            checked={saveTimeRange}
+            onChange={drawer.onToggleSaveTimeRange}
+            aria-label={selectors.pages.SaveDashboardModal.saveTimerange}
+          />
+        </Field>
+      )}
+      {hasVariableValuesChanged && (
+        <Field label="Save current variable values" description="Will make the current values the new default">
+          <Checkbox
+            checked={saveVariables}
+            onChange={drawer.onToggleSaveVariables}
+            label="Save current variable values as dashboard default"
+            aria-label={selectors.pages.SaveDashboardModal.saveVariables}
+          />
+        </Field>
+      )}
+      <Field label="Message">
+        {/* config.featureToggles.dashgpt * TOOD GenAIDashboardChangesButton */}
+
+        <TextArea
+          aria-label="message"
+          value={options.message ?? ''}
+          onChange={(e) => {
+            setOptions({
+              ...options,
+              message: e.currentTarget.value,
+            });
+          }}
+          placeholder="Add a note to describe your changes (optional)."
+          autoFocus
+          rows={5}
+        />
+      </Field>
+      <Box paddingTop={2}>{renderFooter(state.error)}</Box>
+    </Stack>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/shared.tsx b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/shared.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3a836ede0a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/shared.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+import React from 'react';
+
+import { selectors } from '@grafana/e2e-selectors';
+import { isFetchError } from '@grafana/runtime';
+import { Dashboard } from '@grafana/schema';
+import { Alert, Box, Button, Stack } from '@grafana/ui';
+
+import { DashboardScene } from '../scene/DashboardScene';
+import { transformSceneToSaveModel } from '../serialization/transformSceneToSaveModel';
+import { Diffs, jsonDiff } from '../settings/version-history/utils';
+
+export interface DashboardChangeInfo {
+  changedSaveModel: Dashboard;
+  initialSaveModel: Dashboard;
+  diffs: Diffs;
+  diffCount: number;
+  hasChanges: boolean;
+  hasTimeChanged: boolean;
+  hasVariableValuesChanged: boolean;
+  isNew?: boolean;
+}
+
+export function getSaveDashboardChange(dashboard: DashboardScene, saveTimeRange?: boolean): DashboardChangeInfo {
+  const initialSaveModel = dashboard.getInitialSaveModel()!;
+  const changedSaveModel = transformSceneToSaveModel(dashboard);
+  const hasTimeChanged = getHasTimeChanged(changedSaveModel, initialSaveModel);
+  const hasVariableValuesChanged = getVariableValueChanges(changedSaveModel, initialSaveModel);
+
+  if (!saveTimeRange) {
+    changedSaveModel.time = initialSaveModel.time;
+  }
+
+  const diff = jsonDiff(initialSaveModel, changedSaveModel);
+
+  let diffCount = 0;
+  for (const d of Object.values(diff)) {
+    diffCount += d.length;
+  }
+
+  return {
+    changedSaveModel,
+    initialSaveModel,
+    diffs: diff,
+    diffCount,
+    hasChanges: diffCount > 0,
+    hasTimeChanged,
+    isNew: changedSaveModel.version === 0,
+    hasVariableValuesChanged,
+  };
+}
+
+function getHasTimeChanged(saveModel: Dashboard, originalSaveModel: Dashboard) {
+  return saveModel.time?.from !== originalSaveModel.time?.from || saveModel.time?.to !== originalSaveModel.time?.to;
+}
+
+function getVariableValueChanges(saveModel: Dashboard, originalSaveModel: Dashboard) {
+  return false;
+}
+
+export function isVersionMismatchError(error?: Error) {
+  return isFetchError(error) && error.data && error.data.status === 'version-mismatch';
+}
+
+export function isNameExistsError(error?: Error) {
+  return isFetchError(error) && error.data && error.data.status === 'name-exists';
+}
+
+export function isPluginDashboardError(error?: Error) {
+  return isFetchError(error) && error.data && error.data.status === 'plugin-dashboard';
+}
+
+export interface NameAlreadyExistsErrorProps {
+  cancelButton: React.ReactNode;
+  saveButton: (overwrite: boolean) => React.ReactNode;
+}
+
+export function NameAlreadyExistsError({ cancelButton, saveButton }: NameAlreadyExistsErrorProps) {
+  return (
+    <Alert title="Name already exists" severity="error">
+      <p>
+        A dashboard with the same name in selected folder already exists. Would you still like to save this dashboard?
+      </p>
+      <Box paddingTop={2}>
+        <Stack alignItems="center">
+          {cancelButton}
+          {saveButton(true)}
+        </Stack>
+      </Box>
+    </Alert>
+  );
+}
+
+export interface SaveButtonProps {
+  overwrite: boolean;
+  onSave: (overwrite: boolean) => void;
+  isLoading: boolean;
+  isValid?: boolean;
+}
+
+export function SaveButton({ overwrite, isLoading, isValid, onSave }: SaveButtonProps) {
+  return (
+    <Button
+      disabled={!isValid || isLoading}
+      icon={isLoading ? 'spinner' : undefined}
+      aria-label={selectors.pages.SaveDashboardModal.save}
+      onClick={() => onSave(overwrite)}
+      variant={overwrite ? 'destructive' : 'primary'}
+    >
+      {isLoading ? 'Saving...' : overwrite ? 'Save and overwrite' : 'Save'}
+    </Button>
+  );
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/useSaveDashboard.ts b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/useSaveDashboard.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e087304e596
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/saving/useSaveDashboard.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+import { useAsyncFn } from 'react-use';
+
+import { locationUtil } from '@grafana/data';
+import { locationService, reportInteraction } from '@grafana/runtime';
+import { Dashboard } from '@grafana/schema';
+import appEvents from 'app/core/app_events';
+import { useAppNotification } from 'app/core/copy/appNotification';
+import { updateDashboardName } from 'app/core/reducers/navBarTree';
+import { useSaveDashboardMutation } from 'app/features/browse-dashboards/api/browseDashboardsAPI';
+import { SaveDashboardOptions } from 'app/features/dashboard/components/SaveDashboard/types';
+import { useDispatch } from 'app/types';
+import { DashboardSavedEvent } from 'app/types/events';
+
+import { updateDashboardUidLastUsedDatasource } from '../../dashboard/utils/dashboard';
+import { DashboardScene } from '../scene/DashboardScene';
+
+export function useDashboardSave(isCopy = false) {
+  const dispatch = useDispatch();
+  const notifyApp = useAppNotification();
+  const [saveDashboardRtkQuery] = useSaveDashboardMutation();
+
+  const [state, onSaveDashboard] = useAsyncFn(
+    async (scene: DashboardScene, saveModel: Dashboard, options: SaveDashboardOptions) => {
+      {
+        const result = await saveDashboardRtkQuery({
+          dashboard: saveModel,
+          folderUid: options.folderUid,
+          message: options.message,
+          overwrite: options.overwrite,
+          showErrorAlert: false,
+        });
+
+        if ('error' in result) {
+          throw result.error;
+        }
+
+        const resultData = result.data;
+        scene.saveCompleted(saveModel, resultData, options.folderUid);
+
+        // important that these happen before location redirect below
+        appEvents.publish(new DashboardSavedEvent());
+        notifyApp.success('Dashboard saved');
+
+        //Update local storage dashboard to handle things like last used datasource
+        updateDashboardUidLastUsedDatasource(resultData.uid);
+
+        if (isCopy) {
+          reportInteraction('grafana_dashboard_copied', {
+            name: saveModel.title,
+            url: resultData.url,
+          });
+        } else {
+          reportInteraction(`grafana_dashboard_${resultData.uid ? 'saved' : 'created'}`, {
+            name: saveModel.title,
+            url: resultData.url,
+          });
+        }
+
+        const currentLocation = locationService.getLocation();
+        const newUrl = locationUtil.stripBaseFromUrl(resultData.url);
+
+        if (newUrl !== currentLocation.pathname) {
+          setTimeout(() => locationService.replace({ pathname: newUrl, search: currentLocation.search }));
+        }
+
+        if (scene.state.meta.isStarred) {
+          dispatch(
+            updateDashboardName({
+              id: resultData.uid,
+              title: scene.state.title,
+              url: newUrl,
+            })
+          );
+        }
+
+        return result.data;
+      }
+    },
+    [dispatch, notifyApp]
+  );
+
+  return { state, onSaveDashboard };
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/scene/DashboardScene.tsx b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/scene/DashboardScene.tsx
index 1daff7bd757..9296eba6fa9 100644
--- a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/scene/DashboardScene.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/scene/DashboardScene.tsx
@@ -18,17 +18,17 @@ import {
   SceneVariable,
   SceneVariableDependencyConfigLike,
 } from '@grafana/scenes';
-import { DashboardLink } from '@grafana/schema';
+import { Dashboard, DashboardLink } from '@grafana/schema';
 import appEvents from 'app/core/app_events';
 import { getNavModel } from 'app/core/selectors/navModel';
 import { getDashboardSrv } from 'app/features/dashboard/services/DashboardSrv';
 import { DashboardModel } from 'app/features/dashboard/state';
 import { VariablesChanged } from 'app/features/variables/types';
-import { DashboardDTO, DashboardMeta } from 'app/types';
+import { DashboardDTO, DashboardMeta, SaveDashboardResponseDTO } from 'app/types';
 
 import { PanelEditor } from '../panel-edit/PanelEditor';
+import { SaveDashboardDrawer } from '../saving/SaveDashboardDrawer';
 import { DashboardSceneRenderer } from '../scene/DashboardSceneRenderer';
-import { SaveDashboardDrawer } from '../serialization/SaveDashboardDrawer';
 import { transformSaveModelToScene } from '../serialization/transformSaveModelToScene';
 import { DecoratedRevisionModel } from '../settings/VersionsEditView';
 import { DashboardEditView } from '../settings/utils';
@@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ export interface DashboardSceneState extends SceneObjectState {
   editview?: DashboardEditView;
   /** Edit panel */
   editPanel?: PanelEditor;
-
   /** Scene object that handles the current drawer or modal */
   overlay?: SceneObject;
 }
@@ -104,6 +103,10 @@ export class DashboardScene extends SceneObjectBase<DashboardSceneState> {
    * State before editing started
    */
   private _initialState?: DashboardSceneState;
+  /**
+   * The save model which the scene was originally created from
+   */
+  private _initialSaveModel?: Dashboard;
   /**
    * Url state before editing started
    */
@@ -166,14 +169,42 @@ export class DashboardScene extends SceneObjectBase<DashboardSceneState> {
     this.setState({ isEditing: true });
 
     // Propagate change edit mode change to children
-    if (this.state.body instanceof SceneGridLayout) {
-      this.state.body.setState({ isDraggable: true, isResizable: true });
-      forceRenderChildren(this.state.body, true);
-    }
-
+    this.propagateEditModeChange();
     this.startTrackingChanges();
   };
 
+  public saveCompleted(saveModel: Dashboard, result: SaveDashboardResponseDTO, folderUid?: string) {
+    this._initialSaveModel = {
+      ...saveModel,
+      id: result.id,
+      uid: result.uid,
+      version: result.version,
+    };
+
+    this.stopTrackingChanges();
+    this.setState({
+      version: result.version,
+      isDirty: false,
+      uid: result.uid,
+      id: result.id,
+      meta: {
+        ...this.state.meta,
+        uid: result.uid,
+        url: result.url,
+        slug: result.slug,
+        folderUid: folderUid,
+      },
+    });
+    this.startTrackingChanges();
+  }
+
+  private propagateEditModeChange() {
+    if (this.state.body instanceof SceneGridLayout) {
+      this.state.body.setState({ isDraggable: this.state.isEditing, isResizable: this.state.isEditing });
+      forceRenderChildren(this.state.body, true);
+    }
+  }
+
   public onDiscard = () => {
     // No need to listen to changes anymore
     this.stopTrackingChanges();
@@ -198,12 +229,8 @@ export class DashboardScene extends SceneObjectBase<DashboardSceneState> {
     this.setState({ ...this._initialState, isEditing: false });
     // and start url sync again
     this.startUrlSync();
-
     // Disable grid dragging
-    if (this.state.body instanceof SceneGridLayout) {
-      this.state.body.setState({ isDraggable: false, isResizable: false });
-      forceRenderChildren(this.state.body, true);
-    }
+    this.propagateEditModeChange();
   };
 
   public onRestore = async (version: DecoratedRevisionModel): Promise<boolean> => {
@@ -227,9 +254,18 @@ export class DashboardScene extends SceneObjectBase<DashboardSceneState> {
     return true;
   };
 
-  public onSave = () => {
-    this.setState({ overlay: new SaveDashboardDrawer({ dashboardRef: this.getRef() }) });
-  };
+  public openSaveDrawer({ saveAsCopy }: { saveAsCopy?: boolean }) {
+    if (!this.state.isEditing) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    this.setState({
+      overlay: new SaveDashboardDrawer({
+        dashboardRef: this.getRef(),
+        saveAsCopy,
+      }),
+    });
+  }
 
   public getPageNav(location: H.Location, navIndex: NavIndex) {
     const { meta, viewPanelScene, editPanel } = this.state;
@@ -383,6 +419,15 @@ export class DashboardScene extends SceneObjectBase<DashboardSceneState> {
 
     return Boolean(meta.canEdit || meta.canMakeEditable);
   }
+
+  public getInitialSaveModel() {
+    return this._initialSaveModel;
+  }
+
+  /** Hacky temp function until we refactor transformSaveModelToScene a bit */
+  public setInitialSaveModel(saveModel: Dashboard) {
+    this._initialSaveModel = saveModel;
+  }
 }
 
 export class DashboardVariableDependency implements SceneVariableDependencyConfigLike {
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/scene/NavToolbarActions.tsx b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/scene/NavToolbarActions.tsx
index 70068fe5cff..957ee3b9860 100644
--- a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/scene/NavToolbarActions.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/scene/NavToolbarActions.tsx
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ export const NavToolbarActions = React.memo<Props>(({ dashboard }) => {
           variant="primary"
           icon="pen"
           fill="text"
+          size="sm"
         >
           Edit
         </Button>
@@ -130,8 +131,9 @@ export const NavToolbarActions = React.memo<Props>(({ dashboard }) => {
       toolbarActions.push(
         <Button
           onClick={() => {
-            dashboard.onSave();
+            dashboard.openSaveDrawer({ saveAsCopy: true });
           }}
+          size="sm"
           tooltip="Save as copy"
           fill="text"
           key="save-as"
@@ -146,6 +148,7 @@ export const NavToolbarActions = React.memo<Props>(({ dashboard }) => {
           }}
           tooltip="Discard changes"
           fill="text"
+          size="sm"
           key="discard"
           variant="destructive"
         >
@@ -156,11 +159,12 @@ export const NavToolbarActions = React.memo<Props>(({ dashboard }) => {
         <Button
           onClick={() => {
             DashboardInteractions.toolbarSaveClick();
-            dashboard.onSave();
+            dashboard.openSaveDrawer({});
           }}
           tooltip="Save changes"
           key="save"
-          disabled={!isDirty}
+          size="sm"
+          variant={isDirty ? 'primary' : 'secondary'}
         >
           Save
         </Button>
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/scene/keyboardShortcuts.ts b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/scene/keyboardShortcuts.ts
index 8273663b3a1..197048feb9a 100644
--- a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/scene/keyboardShortcuts.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/scene/keyboardShortcuts.ts
@@ -110,6 +110,11 @@ export function setupKeyboardShortcuts(scene: DashboardScene) {
     onTrigger: scene.onOpenSettings,
   });
 
+  keybindings.addBinding({
+    key: 'mod+s',
+    onTrigger: () => scene.openSaveDrawer({}),
+  });
+
   // toggle all panel legends (TODO)
   // delete panel (TODO when we work on editing)
   // toggle all exemplars (TODO)
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/serialization/SaveDashboardDrawer.tsx b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/serialization/SaveDashboardDrawer.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index 358d857f441..00000000000
--- a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/serialization/SaveDashboardDrawer.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-import React from 'react';
-
-import { SceneComponentProps, SceneObjectBase, SceneObjectState, SceneObjectRef } from '@grafana/scenes';
-import { Drawer } from '@grafana/ui';
-import { SaveDashboardDiff } from 'app/features/dashboard/components/SaveDashboard/SaveDashboardDiff';
-
-import { DashboardScene } from '../scene/DashboardScene';
-import { jsonDiff } from '../settings/version-history/utils';
-
-import { transformSceneToSaveModel } from './transformSceneToSaveModel';
-
-interface SaveDashboardDrawerState extends SceneObjectState {
-  dashboardRef: SceneObjectRef<DashboardScene>;
-}
-
-export class SaveDashboardDrawer extends SceneObjectBase<SaveDashboardDrawerState> {
-  onClose = () => {
-    this.state.dashboardRef.resolve().setState({ overlay: undefined });
-  };
-
-  static Component = ({ model }: SceneComponentProps<SaveDashboardDrawer>) => {
-    const dashboard = model.state.dashboardRef.resolve();
-    const initialState = dashboard.getInitialState();
-    const initialScene = new DashboardScene(initialState!);
-    const initialSaveModel = transformSceneToSaveModel(initialScene);
-    const changedSaveModel = transformSceneToSaveModel(dashboard);
-
-    const diff = jsonDiff(initialSaveModel, changedSaveModel);
-
-    // let diffCount = 0;
-    // for (const d of Object.values(diff)) {
-    //   diffCount += d.length;
-    // }
-
-    return (
-      <Drawer title="Save dashboard" subtitle={dashboard.state.title} onClose={model.onClose}>
-        <SaveDashboardDiff diff={diff} oldValue={initialSaveModel} newValue={changedSaveModel} />
-      </Drawer>
-    );
-  };
-}
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/serialization/dataLayersToAnnotations.ts b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/serialization/dataLayersToAnnotations.ts
index 1261ec4157a..dd16c946c0e 100644
--- a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/serialization/dataLayersToAnnotations.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/serialization/dataLayersToAnnotations.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ export function dataLayersToAnnotations(layers: SceneDataLayerProvider[]) {
     if (!(layer instanceof dataLayers.AnnotationsDataLayer)) {
       continue;
     }
+
     const result = {
       ...layer.state.query,
       enable: Boolean(layer.state.isEnabled),
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/serialization/transformSaveModelToScene.ts b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/serialization/transformSaveModelToScene.ts
index a9df0e84e81..3f0f3146cd0 100644
--- a/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/serialization/transformSaveModelToScene.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard-scene/serialization/transformSaveModelToScene.ts
@@ -72,7 +72,11 @@ export function transformSaveModelToScene(rsp: DashboardDTO): DashboardScene {
     autoMigrateOldPanels: false,
   });
 
-  return createDashboardSceneFromDashboardModel(oldModel);
+  const scene = createDashboardSceneFromDashboardModel(oldModel);
+  // TODO: refactor createDashboardSceneFromDashboardModel to work on Dashboard schema model
+  scene.setInitialSaveModel(rsp.dashboard);
+
+  return scene;
 }
 
 export function createSceneObjectsForPanels(oldPanels: PanelModel[]): SceneGridItemLike[] {
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard/components/SaveDashboard/types.ts b/public/app/features/dashboard/components/SaveDashboard/types.ts
index 8644d471b95..a8af17cb806 100644
--- a/public/app/features/dashboard/components/SaveDashboard/types.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard/components/SaveDashboard/types.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import { Dashboard } from '@grafana/schema';
 import { CloneOptions, DashboardModel } from 'app/features/dashboard/state/DashboardModel';
 import { Diffs } from 'app/features/dashboard-scene/settings/version-history/utils';
-import { DashboardDataDTO } from 'app/types';
 
 export interface SaveDashboardData {
   clone: Dashboard; // cloned copy
@@ -18,10 +17,11 @@ export interface SaveDashboardOptions extends CloneOptions {
 }
 
 export interface SaveDashboardCommand {
-  dashboard: DashboardDataDTO;
+  dashboard: Dashboard;
   message?: string;
   folderUid?: string;
   overwrite?: boolean;
+  showErrorAlert?: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface SaveDashboardFormProps {
diff --git a/public/app/features/trails/DataTrailDrawer.tsx b/public/app/features/trails/DataTrailDrawer.tsx
index fa2357c4318..94c7bc2f19c 100644
--- a/public/app/features/trails/DataTrailDrawer.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/trails/DataTrailDrawer.tsx
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ export function buildDataTrailFromQuery({ query, dsRef, timeRange }: DataTrailDr
   return new DataTrail({
     $timeRange: timeRange,
     metric: query.metric,
-    initialDS: ds?.name,
+    initialDS: ds?.uid,
     initialFilters: filters,
     embedded: true,
   });