# Archera

## Home

- **What is Archera?**: Cloud cost optimization platform that reduces spending by 20-30% through intelligent commitment management
- **Rate Optimization**: Understanding cloud rate optimization strategies and how to achieve significant cost savings without impacting your infrastructure
- **Insured Commitments**: Learn about Archera’s Guaranteed Commitments that provide short-term insured cloud commitments with maximum flexibility and risk protection
- **How to Sign Up with Archera**: Get started with Archera’s platform to begin optimizing your cloud costs through intelligent commitment management
- **Supported Reservable Services**: Comprehensive list of all cloud services supported by Archera’s platform across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

## API & MCP Reference

- **API & MCP Reference**: View our public API reference to access Archera's platform programmatically
- **MCP Server**
- **Public API Reference**
- **API Key Access**
- **Commitment Plans**
- **Commitments**
- **Exchanges**
- **Metrics**
- **Orgs**
- **Resources**
- **Savings Estimate**
- **Uploads**
- **Well Known**
- **OAuth**
- **Models**
- **Partner API**
- **Organizations**
- **Partners**
- **Models**
- **Beta API**
- **API Key Access**
- **Units Convention**
- **Reports**
- **Allocation Reports (Beta)**
- **Commitment Plans (Beta)**
- **Commitment Plan Templates (Beta)**
- **Commitment Types (Beta)**
- **Commitments (Beta)**
- **Metrics (Beta)**
- **Moneyback Guarantees (Beta)**
- **Segments (Beta)**
- **Invoices (Beta)**
- **Cost Explorer (Beta)**
- **Exchanges (Beta)**
- **Integrations (Beta)**
- **Resources (Beta)**
- **Catalog (Beta)**
- **Organizations (Beta)**
- **Models**

## Help Center

- **Help Center**
- **What is Archera?**: Cloud cost optimization platform that reduces spending by 20-30% through intelligent commitment management
- **How to Sign Up with Archera**: Get started with Archera’s platform to begin optimizing your cloud costs through intelligent commitment management
- **Supported Reservable Services**: Comprehensive list of all cloud services supported by Archera’s platform across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
- **Archera Overview**
- **Product Overview**
- **Platform Features & Modules**
- **What Cloud Services Does Archera Support?**
- **What Category Is Archera In?**
- **User Guide**
- **Archera QuickStart Guide (AWS)**
- **Segment Dashboard - Overview**
- **Infrastructure History - Overview**
- **Resource Recommendations - Overview**
- **Commitment Planner - Overview**
- **Commitment Inventory**
- **Settings & Integrations - Section Overview**
- **How to Create a Custom Purchase or Renewal Plan**
- **How Does Archera Calculate Commitment Coverage**
- **How Does Commitment Discount Attribution Work**
- **Invite Users and Onboarding Troubleshooting**
- **How Do I Remove or Add a User?**
- **What is the Lookback Period?**
- **What Contract Terms Are Available for AWS?**
- **Archera's Savings Options**
- **Recommended Plan: Flexible Savings, Minimal Commitment**
- **Why is my Dashboard a Day or Two Behind?**
- **Guaranteed Commitments**
- **What are Guaranteed Commitments?**
- **Premiums and Term Lengths**
- **What are Guaranteed Commitment Allowances?**
- **How Can I Raise My Allowances?**
- **Why Are Allowances for Certain Types Lower?**
- **How Does Guaranteed Commitment Pricing Work?**
- **Do Guaranteed Commitments Work with AWS GovCloud?**
- **Low Capacity Instances (GPUs)**
- **Billing Options if Still on AWS Credits**
- **3rd-Party Insurance**
- **How Does the AWS RI Marketplace Restriction Affect Archera?**
- **How to Enable EC2 RI Marketplace**
- **How do Rebate Insured Commitments Work?**
- **How Can I Change My Term Length?**
- **How does the Buyback/Rebate Guarantee Mechanic Work?**
- **Commitment Automation**: How commitment laddering, convertible RI exchange, and insurance-backed management compare — and why Archera includes automation tools that others charge for.
- **What is Commitment Automation?**: What commitment laddering and convertible RI exchange automation are, why an entire vendor category was built around them, and why Archera includes both for free.
- **Software-Only vs. Insurance-Backed Commitment Management**: A structural comparison of software-only commitment automation tools and Archera's insurance-backed approach — what each can and cannot do, and why the distinction matters.
- **Billing**
- **Billing and Guaranteed Commitments**
- **How Customers Pay Archera**
- **AWS Billing**
- **Azure Billing**
- **How Do I Apply AWS Credits?**
- **How Does Discount Attribution Work?**
- **Invoices**
- **Security**
- **How Does Archera Access my AWS Environment?**
- **How Does Archera Access My Azure Environment?**
- **Do I Need to Grant Access to My GovCloud Account?**
- **How Long Is My Data Retained?**
- **How Do I Configure SSO for Azure AD?**
- **AWS Onboarding**
- **What IAM Permissions Does the Trial Deployment Require?**
- **What IAM Permissions Does the Production Deployment Require?**
- **What is the Archera AWS Account ID?**
- **Can I Test Archera in an AWS Sub-Account?**
- **How and Why Do I Connect My AWS CUR to Archera?**
- **Onboarding Archera on GCP**
- **What Permissions Does the GCP Deployment Require?**
- **Azure Onboarding**
- **Technical Onboarding**
- **What Information Does Archera Require to Connect to My Azure Account?**
- **Supported Account / Subscription Types**
- **Prerequisite Checklist**
- **Manual CLI Setup**
- **Required Permissions**
- **Azure Onboarding Features**
- **Enabling Custom Price Sheet Downloads**
- **Onboarding using Azure CLI**
- **Add a New Subscription to an Existing Integration**
- **Services Supported**
- **What Reservable Azure Services Does Archera Insure?**
- **Does Archera Support Reservations for Azure Storage Disks?**
- **Troubleshooting**
- **Azure Storage Recommendations Not Showing**
- **Other FAQ**
- **What does Azure RI 'Instance Size Flexibility' Mean?**
- **Does Archera Rely on Azure Exchanges or Returns Policy?**
- **Offboarding**
- **Azure Offboarding**
- **Partner Platform Integration**: Embed Archera’s commitment capabilities directly into your platform - keep customers in your ecosystem while providing more savings and adding new revenue streams
- **Onboard a Customer via AWS**: Register a customer organization and set up AWS cloud integration using the Archera Partner API
- **Onboard a Customer via Azure**: Register a customer organization and set up Azure cloud integration using the Archera Partner API
- **Purchase Commitments**: Purchase cloud commitments to optimize costs for your customers using the Archera Partner API
- **FAQ**
- **Does Archera Help with Underutilized Infrastructure & Right-Sizing?**
- **Does Archera Offer Professional Services?**
- **Could Archera Change or Impact My Application?**
- **How Do I Audit Archera?**
- **Do Plan Recommendations Account for Previously Submitted Plans?**
- **Does Archera Support On Capacity Demand Reservations (OCDR)?**
- **How Does Archera Underwrite?**
- **Archera MCP Server — Connect in Claude**
- **Adjusting Ownership of Guaranteed Commitment Account on AWS**
- **Archera for AWS CSPPA and ESPPA**
- **AWS PPA/EDP Insurance & Shortfall FAQs**
- **Cloud Service Intelligence**: This page provides details and nuance around reservable services
- **Azure**: Azure Reservation and Savings Plan coverage briefs for reservable Azure services
- **Compute**
- **Virtual Machines**
- **Dedicated Host**
- **App Service Plans**
- **Container Instances**
- **Azure VMware Solution**
- **Azure Red Hat OpenShift**
- **Azure Spring Apps**
- **Database**
- **Azure SQL DB**
- **Database for MySQL**
- **Database for PostgreSQL**
- **Cosmos DB**
- **Cache for Redis**
- **Storage**
- **Blob Storage**
- **Azure Files**
- **Managed Disks**
- **Azure NetApp Files**
- **Advanced Services**
- **Synapse Analytics**
- **Azure Databricks**
- **Data Factory**
- **HDInsight**
- **Machine Learning**
- **Microsoft Sentinel**: Azure reservation and savings plan coverage brief for Microsoft Sentinel
- **Azure AI Foundry / OpenAI**
- **Microsoft Fabric**
- **AWS**: AWS Reserved Instance and Savings Plan coverage briefs for reservable AWS services
- **Compute**
- **EC2**
- **Lambda**
- **Fargate**
- **Database**
- **RDS**
- **Aurora**
- **ElastiCache**
- **DynamoDB**
- **DocumentDB**
- **Neptune**
- **MemoryDB**
- **Advanced Services**
- **Redshift**
- **OpenSearch Service**
- **EMR**
- **SageMaker**
- **GCP**: GCP Committed Use Discount coverage briefs for reservable Google Cloud services
- **Compute**
- **Compute Engine**
- **Google Kubernetes Engine**
- **Cloud Run**
- **Google Cloud VMware Engine**
- **Bare Metal Solution**
- **Database**
- **Cloud SQL**
- **Cloud Spanner**
- **Cloud Bigtable**
- **Memorystore**
- **Advanced Services**
- **Vertex AI**
- **BigQuery**
- **Dataproc**
- **AWS FAQ**
- **How Can I Set Up a Bank Account to Enable the AWS Marketplace?**
- **What does AWS RI 'Instance Size Flexibility' Mean?**
- **How Does Archera Help Navigate AWS EC2 Standard RI Marketplace Limits?**
- **Can Archera Help Resell or Manage Underutilized AWS Convertible RIs?**
- **Why Not Just Use AWS Cost Explorer?**
- **Why is My Cost Explorer Empty After Leaving an MSP?**
- **Archera's Compliance with the Updated AWS RI and SP Sharing Policy**
- **How Do I Get Started as an AWS Archera Channel Partner?**
- **Why Does AWS Cost Explorer Show a Cost Increase After Commitment Purchases?**
- **Why Are My AWS Tags Not Showing Up in the Dashboard?**
- **Can I Use Archera if I'm Under an AWS Reseller's Consolidated Billing?**
- **Why Do I See New Monthly Charges from AWS Cost Explorer?**
- **What are "EC2-Other" AWS Costs on Cost Explorer?**
- **How Long Does It Take for Changes to My AWS Resources to Reflect in Archera?**
- **Why Did the AWS Sub-Account Connection Script Fail?**
- **Does Archera Support Multiple AWS Accounts in a Consolidated Billing Family?**
- **Create CPPO Offers for Archera Subscription**: Create Channel Partner Private Offers (CPPO) for Archera’s existing AWS Marketplace subscription listing
- **Claude MCP Integration**: Set up the Archera MCP custom connector in Claude to ask Archera-specific questions and perform actions
- **Cloud Commitment Fundamentals for Sales**: Time: ≤15 minutes | Audience: Sales reps at ISVs and MSPs
- **Cloud Commitment Management for Technical and Customer Teams**: Time: ≤30 minutes | Audience: Solutions Architects, Account Managers, Customer Success at MSPs

## Partners

- **Archera Partner Wiki**
- **How to Work with Archera**
- **Core Concepts**
- **Insured Commitments**
- **Supported Services**
- **Acronyms**
- **Sales Quickstart Guide**
- **Discovery Questions**
- **List of Common Scenarios & Questions**
- **Partner Portal**
- **AWS CPPO Basics and How to Extend them to Customers**
- **Platform Walkthroughs**
- **Collateral**

## Blog

- **Blog**: Latest updates, engineering insights, and product announcements from Archera
- **Streamlined AWS Onboarding with IAM Temporary Delegation**