Pay less for AWS

Reliable savings with Reserved Instances and Savings Plans.
No precise forecasting. No restriction on usage changes.
Just predictably low costs.

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Benefits

We’ll save you time and money. You’ll have the flexibility to adapt. How you choose to take advantage is up to you.

Avoid overpaying

Access the discounted rates of RIs and SPs without creating large, fixed, long-term AWS spend or usage lock-in. Our service is easy to onboard, secure by design and requires no access to the data in your usage accounts.

Reduce uncertainty

Access savings without the need for precise forecasting. Benefit from more predictable cloud costs:

Reliable savings, clearly tracked by KPIs and delivered as a service keep your unit costs low and stable.
Ready-made reporting enables you to surface trends and explore anomalies.

Flexibility to change

Put the time and money we save you to good use. Expand, innovate, research, optimize usage, or build wider governance and control, it’s up to you. Whatever it is, with us, your savings will follow your usage changes.

Avoid overpaying

Reduce uncertainty

Access savings without the need for precise forecasting. Benefit from more predictable cloud costs:

Reliable savings, clearly tracked by KPIs and delivered as a service keep your unit costs low and stable.
Ready-made reporting enables you to surface trends and explore anomalies.

Flexibility to change

Cost Optimization solutions built for you

We can adapt to, or integrate into, your preferred approach to AWS procurement. Most larger enterprise customers add us to their existing purchasing arrangements. For smaller UK public sector customers, we typically act as their AWS reseller

Automate for Enterprise

Our Automate service plan provides hassle-free savings for Enterprise customers with large AWS spends.

Our fee is paid from the savings we generate.

No technical changes, no technical compromises, no precise forecasting and no tedious optimization tasks.

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Accelerate for UK Public Sector

Our Accelerate service plan provides cloud financial management and resale for UK Public Sector organizations for no service fee.

Support your use of AWS with cost optimization, cost and usage reporting, anomaly detection, budget management and

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How we helped SnapLogic’s AI-powered integration platform

We are proud to play our part in enabling SnapLogic to lead the surging enterprise automation market. While we focus on cloud cost management, SnapLogic focuses on its market understanding, innovation and growth. This focus has been recognized by their continued success and appearance in the ‘Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools’.

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“Switching to Automate had immediate benefits to our team and the estimated annual savings are ~$1,200,000 over the next 12 months”

Jack Tang, SnapLogic

“Switching to Automate had immediate benefits to our team and the estimated annual savings are ~$1,200,000 over the next 12 months”

Jack Tang, SnapLogic

Choose Strategic Blue if you're serious about saving

Use our Portal to share your AWS Cost & Usage Report with us. We’ll benchmark how effectively you’re using RIs & SPs and quantify additional savings. Then book a free consultation to discuss the future of your FinOps strategy.

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Experience you can rely on

Specializing in AWS rate optimization since 2010.
That makes us the original cloud FinOps company.

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What does it mean for you?

There are many stakeholders in an organization’s use of cloud. We’ve summarized the impact of our rate optimization approach to you and your colleagues.

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CFO

Be confident in your cloud purchasing strategy with clear, up-to-date KPIs to measure cost efficiency. With reliable savings comes more stable unit costs and less variance to budget. Delivered as a service to enhance your team’s productivity

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Procurement

Benefit from reliable cloud savings without needing to understand the technical use of cloud. Control upfront payments to balance savings with cash flow. Access finance-focused reporting and FinOps training to understand cloud value.

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CTO

Enhance team productivity and cloud value. Allow your teams to focus on making the best technical use of cloud while we manage savings centrally for maximum efficiency. Clear KPIs make it easy to communicate optimization level and create confidence in cloud use.

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Engineering lead

Free yourself from RI & SP management, frequent cost-related finance questions or creating precise usage forecasts. Focus on using the time and budget saved to enhance and expand your organization’s use of cloud.

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FinOps

Access FinOps Domain expertise at Run Maturity. Free your team from frequent rate optimization tasks. Support Organizational Alignment through clear savings, benchmarks and KPIs. Empower your engineers to focus on technology.

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CISO

Least Privilege access to cost and usage metadata only. No access to the data within your cloud accounts and no impact to technical cloud operation or configuration. Strict isolation of activity. Easy to audit.

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Results you can take to the board

When securing budgets for cloud, financial efficiency should be proven alongside technical proof of concept. Our expert Account Managers are here to help you win that board approval.

AWS Savings No Matter What Happens

Board members worry about the unexpected. Show them cloud savings can be relied upon by avoiding wastage, even under challenging scenarios.

Support in Winning Board Approval

Board members balance savings against risk. Show them projected AWS savings are reliable, because wastage risk has been mitigated.

Keep Board Meetings on Topic

Board meetings can be derailed by anomalous data points in financial reporting of cloud. Minimize noise in unit cost of cloud reporting by optimizing rate using frequent, small commitments to deliver consistently high coverage levels.

Estimate how much you can save with our cloud cost optimization

When it comes to rate optimization, the devil is in the detail. Estimates based on best-case scenarios or even “average” savings are typically meaningless and generally unhelpful. Our Savings Review will help you make informed, data-driven decisions based on your cost and usage metadata.

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