Who it's forA FinOps perspective

A FinOps perspective

We’ll use AWS Reserved Instances & Savings Plans to make savings without limiting the freedom to change your spend or usage pattern. We’ll help you demonstrate efficiency, improve ROI, manage uncertainty and gain approval for future cloud and FinOps initiatives.

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Add run-level rate optimization to your FinOps practice

We buy, sell and adjust SPs & RIs based on the cost and usage data in the CUR and the terms of any negotiated discounts. We deliver high coverage and utilization to optimize vacancy and commitment savings rate without creating large, fixed lock-in to a specific usage or spend pattern.

You benefit from cost savings without the management overhead so you can focus on other priorities.

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“Is there impact to our other FinOps initiatives?”

Rate optimization is very well suited to the use of a third-party. It is most efficient when managed by a centralized team. Specialist knowledge the AWS pricing model and cost and usage data is easily transferrable between organizations. Our service has minimal access requirements and uses standard AWS processes during onboarding.

Improved TCO & ROI

Our team and automation save you time and money that can be reinvested in usage optimization or enhancing reporting for governance and control.

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 budget accuracy

Benefit from reliable savings that reduce unit cost variability and can be used alongside a ready made dashboard clearly showing your historical trends.

Measurable Impact

Our clear KPIs make it easy for you to demonstrate rate optimization efficiency. You can set, and exceed, stakeholder expectations to quickly show some of the value FinOps brings.

Cost transparency

Use our dashboard, your existing reporting or build best practice, customized chargeback & showback with support from our FinOps certified consultancy team.

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

Phil Gooch

Scholarcy

Our Strategic Blue Experts

In the State of FinOps by the FinOps Foundation the top 3 priorities given for FinOps Practitioners were:

Reducing waste or unused resources
Managing commitment-based discounts
Accurate forecasting of spend

These are so tightly linked. How can you commitment when you’re unsure your forecasts are accurate and you know there is usage optimization to do? The first step is breaking the link between usage and rate optimization. The second is reducing the error bars in the variables that impact your forecasts.

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“We are passionate about helping our customers implement FinOps best practice as we see the value it brings time and time again.”

James Smith, Head of Customer FinOps

“We are passionate about helping our customers implement FinOps best practice as we see the value it brings time and time again.”

James Smith, Head of Customer FinOps

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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