Manage your Azure costs

Azure use cases for Insured Commitments

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  Azure migrations: Take advantage of the scale and elasticity of the public cloud. Reduce the cost of migration by leveraging reservations without needing to predict 3-year costs.

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  App modernization: Planning to move from a monolithic architecture to microservices, or from IaaS to PaaS? Flexible-term reservations allow you to capture discounts without slowing the pace of innovation.

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  Azure Virtual Desktop: Reduce the total cost of ownership of Azure Virtual Desktop significantly by reserving virtual machines, managed disks, and Azure Files or Azure NetApp Files.

Utilize commitments effectively, unlock new Azure savings, and maximize your long-term purchasing strategy

Azure savings plans and reservations enable you to achieve significant discounts 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 expand 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 Azure purchasing strategy so you can continue to optimize your costs as your usage evolves and grows.

Minimize Azure pay-as-you-go spend with short-term Insured Commitments

Archera attaches a Moneyback Guarantee to Azure savings plans and reservations, converting them into flexible-term Insured Commitments — Guaranteed Savings Plans (GSPs) and Guaranteed Reserved Instances (GRIs) — which enable you to unlock savings even on usage that won’t reliably continue for a year. Use GSPs and GRIs within your own payer account to unlock savings on spend that would otherwise be pay-as-you-go, and pay Archera a small insurance premium only when you save. If you are no longer able to utilize the underlying Azure commitment, Archera will rebate you for losses.

Manage all your commitments across all reservable Azure services

In addition to enabling you to easily segment, attribute, and analyze your Azure spend, Archera’s free platform helps you manage costs across all of Azure’s 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.

Build your long-term Azure purchasing strategy with forecasting and scenario modeling

Use Archera’s free platform to model scenarios for infrastructure evolution and growth atop your cloud forecasts. Build purchasing strategies and leverage usage costs to retire private pricing and volume discount minimums.