Reservations, savings plans and committed use discounts are the deepest lever on a cloud bill, and the easiest to get wrong. We buy, balance and ladder them on a rightsized baseline across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI, and keep coverage and utilization healthy as your usage moves. On the performance model, no savings, no fee.
Most teams are over-committed and under-covered at the same time. They hold reservations bought against last year's usage that no longer matches the fleet, while a large slice of today's stable usage still runs at full on-demand rates. The result is the worst of both worlds: idle commitments draining money and uncovered base spend leaving the discount on the table. Meanwhile every term expiry arrives as a high-pressure renewal decision made with stale data.
Commitment management is not a procurement event you do once a year. It is a portfolio you manage continuously, and that is exactly the work most internal teams do not have time to do well. We do it for you, or with you.
We never commit to waste. Our method runs in a fixed order, and commitments come last, on a clean baseline.
We map current usage with FOCUS-normalized data, then audit your existing reservations, savings plans and CUDs for coverage and utilization gaps.
We rightsize and clear idle resources first, so the baseline is clean. You never lock a discount onto an oversized instance.
We buy and ladder commitments against the stable base, blending one and three year terms with staggered expiry so nothing renews all at once.
We keep utilization above 97% and coverage at the right level as usage shifts, buying fresh tranches and exchanging or selling what no longer fits.
A full read of every reservation, savings plan and CUD across AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI, with coverage and utilization scored against your stable baseline.
We confirm the fleet is clean before any purchase, so commitments sit on real, settled usage rather than waste.
Staggered terms and expiry dates, blending one and three year instruments, so renewals are continuous and risk is spread.
Spend-based versus resource-based, convertible versus standard, matched to how stable each workload actually is.
Ongoing monitoring with exchanges, sales of unused reservations, and fresh tranches as the baseline grows.
Realized savings measured against the on-demand counterfactual, so the program proves its value every period.
You choose the model that fits your risk appetite. The independence of our advice never changes: we hold no reseller margin and have no platform to sell, so the only incentive is your lower bill.
A defined price for a defined piece of work: a portfolio audit, a rebuild, or a one-time commitment strategy. You know the cost up front.
We are paid from the savings we realize. If we do not lower your bill, you owe nothing. We carry the risk because we are confident in the work.
We run commitment management as a continuous service, rebalancing the portfolio every month so coverage and utilization stay healthy.
We audit your existing reservations and savings plans, surface the idle commitments and uncovered base, and show the savings available before you commit to anything. On the performance model, if we save you nothing, there is no fee.
Get a commitment audit →We have optimized more than $420M in cloud spend across 500-plus environments since 2019, with an average reduction of 31% in the monthly bill. Commitments, bought in the right order on a clean baseline, are consistently the lever that moves it most.
We rightsized the EC2 fleet first, then laddered Savings Plans across one and three year terms on the settled baseline. The annual bill fell from $4.2M to $2.8M, a 33% reduction, with commitment utilization holding above 98%. Read the full story in the SaaS on AWS case study.
Start with the cluster guide, the complete guide to cloud commitment management, then go deeper on the specific decision: reserved instances vs savings plans vs CUDs, coverage and utilization, laddering commitments, and tracking commitment ROI. For the full toolkit, download The Commitment Strategy Playbook.
New commitment instruments, FOCUS changes, hyperscaler pricing shifts, and the plays that actually move a bill. No schedule, no filler.