Who it's forA CFO’s perspective

A CFO’s perspective

We’ll help you address the unpredictable and variable cost of AWS to make the most of your cloud budget while managing vendor lock-in and simplifying forecasting.

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Forward contract rewards, without the risks

Reserved Instances and Savings Plans are AWS forward contracts that provide discount rewards in exchange for the lock-in risk of using specific services or spending an agreed amount over a 1 or 3 year term.

We combine the different RI & SP types and options to access the highest 3 year discount rates without creating large, fixed, long-term liabilities for future cloud use. As a result we can confidently cover high proportions of your usage with discounts knowing that we can adjust commitments as needed to adapt to usage changes and avoid wastage.

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Improve TCO & ROI

Save time and money that can be reinvested in usage optimization, building competitive advantage or enhancing data governance and control.

Simplify forecasting

Benefit from reliable savings that reduce unit cost variability. Understand historical trends with a ready-made cost and usage dashboard.

Manage lock-in

A dedicated central team and purpose built technology delivers savings while reducing long-term liability and removing the need for precise forecasting with your engineers.

Cashflow benefits

Deeper discounts are available when upfront payments are made. We can use these in a way that enables the cash and additional savings to return quickly, within limits you control.

Cost transparency

Use our dashboard, your existing reporting or build best practice, customized chargeback & showback with the help of our consultancy team of FinOps experts.

Measurable impact

Our Portal provides clear summaries and KPIs to track both risk and reward. You can easily demonstrate cost efficiency and understanding of your team’s cloud spend.

“Can you make my cloud costs more predictable?”

Our dashboard shows your cloud spend and historical trends so you can make informed data-driven decisions. We provide a consistently high discount coverage level so your unit costs becomes far less volatile. This removes one of the variables that makes forecasting and sticking to cloud budgets harder.

"I am asked by clients if I can help predict the cost of cloud. I am not even sure they know of what the “cost of cloud” includes. Strategic Blue helps make the cost of cloud more predictable."

"Strategic Blue manages the annoying stuff like tracking reservations and cost against Savings Plans so we don’t have to."

Bill Bierds

BCC Group

Niall Fleming

Webanywhere

Our Strategic Blue Experts

The scalability, availability and accessibility of cloud has brought many advantages to technical teams. This can be at the expense of those tasked with controlling cloud costs. In many ways it has decentralized technical service procurement and costs are incurred before finance teams have any visibility.

The challenge is enabling the freedom to harness the power of the cloud without surrendering control or overspending for what you need. This is the very challenge we focus on.

How it works

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“Our approach to cloud rate optimization generates savings using a commodity trader's approach to price risk management.”

Dr. Jon Smith, Chief Commercial Officer

“Our approach to cloud rate optimization generates savings using a commodity trader's approach to price risk management.”

Dr. Jon Smith, Chief Commercial Officer

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, evidence-based decisions without needing to give access to the data in your cloud accounts.

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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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