Cloud Costs
Most stalled AWS migrations aren't stalled because of architecture. They're stalled because the numbers don't work in Year 1.
You've got executive sign-off to exit the data center. You've got a target cloud architecture. What you don't have is a way to close the gap between what the migration costs upfront and what it saves later, especially when a Broadcom-driven VMware renewal spike wipes out your savings model overnight, or when moving thousands of workloads at once makes on-demand spend too volatile for a rigid 1- or 3-year Reserved Instance to keep up with.
That gap is where migrations die. It's also exactly where Archera and ReluTech go to work.
I kept thinking “we have heard this cost visibility, cloud tagging and attribution story one too many times.” For me, the game changing moment was when Aran began talking about reducing risk, proactive planning, and creating a secondary marketplace.
TL;DR:
ReluTech funds the move out. Through purchase-leaseback, your existing on-prem hardware becomes upfront cash; often enough to erase a Year-1 TCO deficit outright. Third-party VMware and hardware support then replaces expensive OEM renewal contracts during the transition, cutting bridge costs by up to 50% while coverage shrinks wave-by-wave as workloads actually leave.
Archera funds the move in. Instead of locking workloads into 1- or 3-year commitments before you know how they'll land, Archera captures RI/SP-level savings with 30-day commitments — 30-40% below on-demand, with a monthly exit if a workload shifts again. Read-only deployment via CloudFormation means no code changes and savings inside 48 hours.
One motion covers both sides of the ledger: the hardware exit funds the business case, third-party support keeps the lights on, and cloud savings start on day one.
A global hospitality and technology enterprise had CFO-approved plans to exit its data centers, until a $1M Year-1 TCO shortfall, a VMware renewal spike, and volatile migration-window spend collapsed the model.
Here's what closing the gap did for them:
The same financial obstacles that stall migrations everywhere (TCO shortfalls, Broadcom-driven renewal spikes, on-demand volatility) get solved with one combined motion instead of two disconnected vendor conversations.
If your business case is stuck on Year-1 economics, or your VMware renewal is about to make the math worse, this is the playbook: fund the exit, bridge the support, capture savings from day one, then scale FinOps without adding headcount as your footprint grows.
We put the full breakdown (funding mechanics, the case study, and a side-by-side of what changes when Archera and ReluTech work together versus going it alone) into one Solution Brief.
Download the Archera x ReluTech Solution Brief
Want to map this to your own migration roadmap first? Book a demo and we'll walk through the numbers together.
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