Savings with flexible AWS RIs

Because Spec’s usage changes frequently over time to meet customer demands, Spec hadn’t prioritized savings with AWS Reserved Instances and Savings Plans because they were worried their bulk discounts would go underutilized — until they learned about Archera’s Insured Commitments!

Archera helps Spec get Reserved Instances-like pricing with just a couple of clicks—instantly shaving significant costs off their AWS bill. Scott Tsuchiyama explains this low-risk approach to cloud savings.

“I think Reserved Instances or general bulk discounts on Amazon are fairly challenging to get access to. Our volumes and our loads change fairly significantly over the course of time, and so, for us to go out and buy a one-year subscription for a Reserved Instance is something that we had never really considered because, what we thought was overloaded six months ago is now extremely underutilized today, and we would have just been stuck with that commitment for a year — hopefully we wouldn’t have paid for three years in that case. So, the ability to access some of the Reserved Instances-like pricing, being able to do all of that in Archera with a couple clicks, was probably as easy as we could shave 15–20% off our bill as we’re going to get.”

— Scott Tsuchiyama, Director of Engineering, Spec

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