Cloud Costs, AWS, Savings Plans
Because purchasing cloud commitments is painful enough that teams keep putting it off.
Think about what it actually takes. You log into the console, cross-reference Cost Explorer, manually track what you already own across services and accounts, and hope you don't accidentally double-buy. Then you do it again for RDS. Then ElastiCache. Then Redshift. Most teams manage this quarterly, manually, and incompletely, if they manage it at all.
The result: on-demand rates for workloads that haven't changed in years.
And when teams do commit, the fear of getting it wrong means they under-commit. They leave coverage at 30% when 70% would be safe. They pass on Savings Plans because the term feels too long. They pay the on-demand tax not out of ignorance, but out of friction.
The FinOps industry has built platforms to solve this. Most of them charge a percentage of your cloud bill for the privilege.
We didn't think that was good enough.
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:
CUDly is a free, open-source CLI built by LeanerCloud and Archera that removes the friction from commitment purchasing entirely. One command discovers, analyzes, and purchases Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Committed Use Discounts across AWS (with Azure and GCP in preview).
Dry-run by default. Nothing purchased until you're ready. CSV export at every step so you know exactly what's happening.
For teams that want a UI, the CUDly dashboard — powered by Archera — gives you the same workflow with visual recommendation review and team-friendly approval flows. No terminal required.
It's free. It's open source. It always will be.
If you want to go further (shorter commitment terms, a money-back guarantee against underutilization, coverage that works the way cloud spending actually works) that's what Archera's Guaranteed Commitments are for.
Start now at github.com/LeanerCloud/CUDly.
