Who it's forA CTO’s perspective

A CTO’s perspective

We’ll reduce your AWS TCO without any engineering effort or technical implementation risk. We’ll help you demonstrate efficiency, improve ROI, manage uncertainty and gain approval for future cloud projects.

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Savings-as-a-service

AWS provides discounts in exchange for Reserved Instance and Savings Plan commitments to use specific services or spend an agreed amount over a 1 or 3 year term. We use RIs & SPs to deliver these savings but without creating the standard 1 and 3 year lock-in to a particular usage profile.

This “rate optimization” is an entirely financial form of cloud cost saving. It requires no technical infrastructure changes. We analyze metadata about what cloud services you’re using and what costs AWS has applied. We manage commitments in dedicated AWS accounts that are entirely separate to your cloud accounts to deliver savings without distracting your team or limiting your choices for future development.

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“How can I manage so many competing priorities?”

There is a constant pressure to deliver high quality technical solutions quickly and cost-effectively. You must balance short-term needs with the long-term vision, often with little notice of changes and poorly defined requirements. We are here to help so you can focus your attention where it is needed most.

Reduce TCO

RIs & SPs are an entirely financial form of cloud cost saving so come with no engineering effort or technical implementation risk.

Manage uncertainty

Small, frequent RI & SP adjustments combining the different types and options available gives us the flexibility to deliver efficient savings even if your usage changes.

Increase ROI

We release time and money back into your teams so they can enhance existing infrastructure and keep up with technological changes so you get more from your cloud investment.

Demonstrate efficiency

Our clear KPIs make it easy for you to demonstrate cost efficiency and control as you set and manage stakeholder expectations.

Simplify approvals

We create a platform to reliably and repeatedly deliver cost-effective results to help you justify future cloud-based initiatives.

Stay secure

We operate in a way that makes it easy to isolate and audit our activity. We need no access to the data in your cloud accounts and have no impact on technical operation or configuration.

“Strategic Blue fully understood our requirements, and provided the business agility we needed to scale. We can count on our partner Strategic Blue.”

"Strategic Blue take the pain away from managing my AWS spend, saving me money, while providing advice and help with setup".

"Working with Strategic Blue helps us save money without any effort. Their Account Managers take care of everything and it’s transparent to us".

Steve Cook

Form3

Phil Gooch

Scholarcy

Carlos J. Mateos Orozco

Team Satchel

Our Strategic Blue Experts

The best technical outcomes come from combining the best engineers with the best technology. Providing the freedom to solve problems based on choices made on technical suitability is key to attracting and retaining the best engineers.

Set against feature delivery, performance, availability and security, cost rarely ranks near the top of an engineer’s list of priorities. The CTO challenge is that cost cannot be ignored. The balancing act is to enable technical freedom to consistently deliver results while demonstrating the efficiency and control vital to justify current spend and gain approval for future initiatives.

How it works

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“Our solutions are specifically designed to grow with your business. We’ll ensure you scale effectively and efficiently by handling increased loads without compromising on speed and reliability”

Tom Denley, Head of Software Development

Tom Denley, Head of Software Development

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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