AWS Cost Optimization • Archera
Optimize your AWS costs
Archera uniquely reduces the cost and complexity of AWS procurement and management by delivering new, flexible AWS cost optimization and commitment strategies through a 100%-free platform. Archera increases your control so you can scale and innovate on AWS while minimizing costs and commitment risk.
Utilize commitments effectively, unlock new AWS savings, and maximize your long-term purchasing strategy
AWS Savings Plans (SPs) and Reserved Instances (RIs) commitments enable you to achieve significant discounts over On-Demand list pricing by committing to spend over a one- or three-year period. Archera helps you maximize your use of these native commitments with our free platform, and extend their utility and flexibility by enabling you to transform them into short-term, Insured Commitments with a commitment term as brief as 30 days. After delivering immediate savings, we work with you to build a forward-looking purchasing strategy so you can continue to optimize your AWS costs as your usage evolves and grows.
Minimize AWS On-Demand spend with short-term Insured Commitments
Archera attaches a Moneyback Guarantee to AWS Savings Plans and RIs, converting them into short-term, Insured Commitments — Guaranteed Savings Plans (GSPs) and Guaranteed Reserved Instances (GRIs) — which enable you to get native commitment-like savings on usage that won’t reliably continue for a year or more. Use GSPs and GRIs within your own payer account to unlock savings on spend that would otherwise be On-Demand, and pay Archera a small insurance premium only when you save. If you are no longer able to utilize the underlying AWS commitment, Archera will rebate you for losses.
Manage all your commitments across all reservable AWS services
In addition to enabling you to easily segment, attribute, and analyze your AWS spend, Archera’s free platform helps you manage costs across all of AWS’ reservable services. Customize your commitment plan to meet the needs of your organization, including or excluding infrastructure from your custom segments down to the instance level. Set automation policies to trigger renewals and purchases so no usage goes uncovered.
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Get savings quickly with Archera’s AWS-aligned model
Our alignment with AWS helps you get results more efficiently. Archera’s unique cloud insurance and financing solutions comply with all service provider rules and guidelines, such as AWS’ 2024 enhancements to its Reserved Instances policies. We work closely with AWS product management and prefer to do business through AWS Marketplace and collaborate closely with your account team as we work with you to build your procurement and commitment strategies.
Build your long-term AWS purchasing strategy with forecasting and scenario modeling
Use Archera’s free platform to model scenarios for infrastructure evolution and growth atop your five-year AWS and multicloud forecasts. Build purchasing strategies and leverage usage costs to retire private pricing and volume discount minimums.
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Accelerate private pricing negotiations
If you have significant AWS spend, a Private Pricing Addendum/Agreement (PPA, also known as the AWS Enterprise Discount Program or EDP) can guarantee you a better rate for AWS services if you can commit to greater spending or a longer contract term length. Archera’s scenario modeling helps you negotiate a rightsized commitment or make changes in your spending patterns to meet private pricing thresholds.
Accelerate your negotiated discounts
Automate your Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR/WAR)
AWS WAFR/WAR assesses your operational and cloud infrastructure alignment with best practices. Archera connects to your AWS account in minutes and walks you through the review, automatically populating data from your entire environment or any custom subset of workloads. You’ll receive assessment results, improvement instructions, and progress tracking over time. Archera can also connect you with validated AWS services partners for implementation and remediation based on WAFR findings.
Pricing for AWS cost management
- Cost and usage visibility and commitment management for AWS are included at no cost as part of Archera’s free platform
- Archera’s free platform launches in five minutes from your preferred cloud services provider (CSP) marketplace and immediately analyzes your cost and usage data for savings
- Leverage the capabilities of Archera’s free platform for as long as you like — we only charge if you choose to purchase one of our value-add products
- Purchase optional products like Insured Commitments, Enterprise Commitment Insurance, and Advanced Reporting through Archera’s free platform and pay through your CSP’s marketplace
- Offboard at any time with no fees, contractual timelines, or pressure to continue using Archera
Accelerate your cloud innovation
De-risk your cloud commitments and increase savings with Archera’s free multicloud commitments lifecycle management platform and first-of-a-kind FinOps products.