For years, the best possible discounts with AWS also required risky commitments or years of developing a portfolio of commitments. We even wrote a blog post about how to build up this sort of portfolio. To get maximum discounts, even under the best portfolio, you still had commitments equal to 18 months of costs over 3 years.
At Crucial Clarity, we believe paying on-demand rates is foolishness, but we also hate giving up flexibility to save money. That's why we've found the best partners and service providers to help you maintain flexibility while still saving a ton!
One of our favorite partners specializes in managing your reservation portfolio. We can't tell you all the details, but we can tell you this: Using this partner will allow you to capture 3-year all-upfront convertible reserved instance pricing (often over 50% discounts) while still having the flexibility to completely change your workload.
They have advanced automation systems that adjust your commitments every hour to ensure the highest possible effective savings rate for exactly the workload you are running, and they do it all with almost no commitments*.
When I analyzed this solution, I was simply blown away. Not only do they allow you to reduce your commitment to essentially zero, but even after their fee you still save more than you could have if you DID have 3 year commitments.
Book an appointment with The Cloud Cost Guru and learn more.
Book a Consultation* Ok, so what does almost no commitment mean? Your total commitment is roughly equal to your monthly EC2 spend. The majority of it expires within 1 month, and beyond that you have a commitment for roughly $50/region/month.
