Accelerate cloud private pricing and enterprise discount negotiations

Accelerate private pricing and Consumption Commitments

AWS PPA private pricing (also known as Enterprise Discount Program/EDP) and Azure MACC (sometimes in conjunction with your Azure Enterprise Agreement/EA) guarantee you a better rate for cloud services if you can commit to higher spending or longer contract terms. But, with more aggressive (and potentially lucrative) terms comes the risk of having to pay the delta between your actual usage and your commitment. Archera’s free scenario modeling quickly arms you with intelligence that can help you get the best terms on your private pricing agreements.

Understand your future usage and costs with free scenario modeling

Committing to a private pricing agreement requires a comprehensive understanding of your future AWS or Azure spend, based on historical usage, future growth plans, and upcoming changes. Generating these predictions via spreadsheets is an extremely time consuming and error-prone process. Archera's free advanced forecasting tools model your costs and usage at varying levels of complexity — from simple trend-based projections to enabling you to tune algorithms and individual cloud resource line items — quickly generating important information that can help you efficiently negotiate a rightsized commitment or adjust your spending patterns to meet existing private pricing thresholds.

Burn down spending commitments efficiently with long-term foresight

Generate a baseline forecast powered by your average historical usage, and track it against hypothetical commitment thresholds. Model the forward-looking impact of any additional input, including:

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  Projected growth rates or investment spikes within any service

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  Cost optimization efforts

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  AWS and Azure support costs

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  Purchasing services through AWS and Azure marketplaces

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  How different Savings Plans and RI strategies can impact your costs

Track the influence of these inputs and more against PPA/MACC commitment metrics, and see how the numbers change under different forecasting algorithms. Easily export forecast details to other data management software for further analysis or reporting.

Insure your AWS PPA and commit with confidence

In addition to assisting with your future AWS demand planning, Archera can help you insure and de-risk uncertain portions of your AWS PPA commitment. Flexible insurance can help you reduce losses due to overcommitment in your multi-year enterprise pricing contract by guaranteeing cash rebates for covered shortfalls.

Avoid shortfall payments in your current AWS PPA

If you’re expecting or experiencing a commitment shortfall within your existing AWS EDP, Archera offers can you make changes in your purchasing strategy patterns in as late as the final quarter of any PPA contract year to avoid chargeback payments. PPA loss prevention and recovery services are offered free of charge.