How it worksSurface actionable insights

Surface actionable insights

Benchmarks, KPIs, cost & usage trends created for you to enable accountability and make informed decisions to drive efficiency. Cost Anomaly detection and budget management to maintain control and avoid nasty surprises.

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Performance KPIs and Benchmarks

Our Portal provides complete transparency on what we’re doing for you and what value that is creating. It provides benchmarks and KPIs so that you can easily check in and compare performance over time. Your Account Manager will answer your questions and ensure you have access to the right Strategic Blue experts, when you need them.

Cost and Usage Dashboard

Our dashboard provides insights into your cloud spend, allows you to track changes over time and drill down into details behind trend changes or the summaries provided by your homepage. It is based on the AWS Cudos dashboard.

Technical Account Management

Your Strategic Blue Account Manager will call on our Technical team when needed to provide you with actionable insights from cost anomaly detection, budget monitoring and usage trend analysis.

Cost Anomaly Detection

With the requisite access, we will setup tailored cost anomaly detection rules and alerts. This identifies unusual cost spikes and spending pattern changes. Ongoing management from our team ensures you receive timely notification of important issues.

Budget Monitoring

Our Technical Account Management team manage custom budgets in AWS Budget Manager. We identify critical alerts and maintain thresholds to ensure they adapt to usage and budget changes. You avoid nasty surprises if spend and budget diverge.

Usage Optimization

Using the dashboard in our Portal your TAM will explore key cost drivers and areas where further efficiencies can be made. This highlights where your DevOps team, or DevOps partners should prioritise their cost optimization efforts.

Our Strategic Blue Experts

The tools we have developed in-house automate many aspects of cloud financial management but we understand every organization is different.

Fully standardized approaches are often forced to take simplistic or over-generalized approaches that compromise the outcomes they deliver.

Our portfolio, account and technical account management teams enable us to avoid these compromises. They provide the collaboration needed to:

adapt to your specific requirements
support your teams with FinOps expertise
avoid automated responses to anomalies in the data

Where you need more we provide consultancy services tailored to your needs with clear deliverables to ensure you get the outcomes you need.

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“One size does not fit all. Every organization uses the cloud differently, has its own preferences and priorities. We’re here to listen and help.”

Frank Contrepois, Chief Innovation Officer

“One size does not fit all. Every organization uses the cloud differently, has its own preferences and priorities. We’re here to listen and help.”

Frank Contrepois, Chief Innovation Officer

Innovate with confidence

The cloud is there to be used, not managed. We’re here to support you deliver the outcomes that took you into the cloud in the first place.

Reduce TCO

By stretching your budget further you’ll can invest more in testing and research as you innovate.

Increase ROI

Release time so your teams can focus their specific expertise where it has most impact

Manage uncertainty

Make cloud costs more predictable without the need for precise usage forecasting

Estimate how much you can save with our cloud cost optimization

Our free Savings Review is a secure way to quickly and easily benchmark how effectively you’re using RIs & SPs. At worst you’ll get third-party validation of your current approach, at best you’ll learn how to deliver even better results.

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Our Service Plans

We use our Advanced Commitment Management approach to deliver benefits through two Service Plans. These are tailored to the different needs we’ve found in the Enterprise and public sectors.

Automate for Enterprise

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

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 optional prepayment for services.

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Our other pillars of rate optimization

Surfacing actionable insights is just one of our three pillars of rate optimization that we use to transform your cloud strategy.

Centralize RI & SP management

We use purpose built technology to manage RIs & SPs centrally. This is more efficient, enables greater discount coverage, creates more opportunities to manage the lock-in risk and removes the overhead from individual teams and engineers.

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Balance risk & reward

We combine small, frequent purchases of SPs and Convertible RIs with the RI Marketplace, and optional use of upfront payments. This allows us to access 3-year discount rates without locking you into a specific usage or spending pattern for 3 years.

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