Strategic Blue

Strategic Blue is a cloud cost optimization and commitment management solution designed to assist organizations of all sizes in achieving optimal cloud pricing. It caters to IT Managers and Directors, Cloud Architects, Finance Managers, Procurement Managers, and Technology Consultants across various industries. Strategic Blue combines automation and attentive service to deliver tailored cloud cost optimization solutions.

Key Features

Cloud Cost Optimization: Strategic Blue offers customized cloud cost optimization solutions that leverage scalable automation and attentive service. These solutions are designed to help customers achieve the most favorable cloud pricing by providing engagement models and pricing plans tailored to their specific needs.

Commitment Management: Strategic Blue supports a wide range of commitable services on AWS and Google Cloud. They utilize various commitment types to strike a balance between savings and flexibility, including discount approaches like Savings Plans and Reserved Instances on different terms and upfront payment options.

Finance-Friendly Budgets: Strategic Blue assists in optimizing current cloud spend and securing finance approval for future cloud projects. They present cloud budgets in a manner that is easily understandable and acceptable to finance teams.

Automated Savings Review: Strategic Blue provides AWS customers with a complimentary automated savings review on their portal. This review offers valuable insights into optimization opportunities and identifies potential savings that may have been missed, leading to personalized recommendations.

Automate Benefits: Strategic Blue's cloud rate optimization solution, Automate, helps customers avoid overpaying for cloud services and achieve significant cost savings. By tailoring available commitment types and combining different options, customers can access up to 40% savings on their cloud bill.

Rate Optimization without Lock-In: Strategic Blue's Automate solution optimizes cloud rates without imposing long-term lock-in or disrupting customer teams. It actively manages cloud costs, handling tasks such as purchasing, renewing, updating, and selling commitments, while ensuring the best savings without sacrificing flexibility.

Full Visibility and Transparency: Strategic Blue provides customers with comprehensive visibility into their cloud costs and the impact of their actions. Through their portal, customers can benchmark performance, track the impact of Strategic Blue's actions on their commitments, and analyze cost and usage trends.

Simple Onboarding Process: Strategic Blue follows standard AWS procedures in their onboarding process, minimizing the involvement of customer teams and ensuring a smooth transition to their services.

Flexible Solutions for Different Needs: Strategic Blue recognizes that customers have diverse needs and offers tailored solutions at various stages of their cloud journey. They provide cost optimization based on factors such as cloud spend, ability to commit, available time and expertise, and desired level of engagement.