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Cloud commitments—including Reserved Instances (RIs), Savings Plans (SPs), and Committed Use Discounts (CUDs)—offer substantial savings compared to on-demand pricing. But unlocking their full value requires more than just purchasing them. It demands strategic management, real-time optimization and deep visibility across your cloud estate.
If your organization is already using cloud cost tools, you’ve taken a critical first step. But to truly maximize your cloud ROI, it’s time to turn to Flexera One Cloud Commitment Management (formerly Spot Eco).
The challenge: underutilized commitments and missed opportunities
In dynamic cloud environments, teams often over purchase commitments—like RIs, SPs, or CUDs—to avoid the risk of slipping into costly on-demand usage. But when demand shifts or workloads fluctuate, that committed capacity can sit idle, leading to underutilization and missed savings opportunities. This leads to:
- Wasted spend
- Reduced Effective Savings Rate (ESR)
- Increased operational overhead
Even with cloud cost visibility tools in place, many organizations struggle to align commitments with actual usage. That’s because cloud cost tools surface insights—but don’t act on them.
Automate FinOps with Cloud Commitment Management
Cloud Commitment Management, part of Flexera One FinOps, helps you move from passive cost monitoring to automated savings. It continuously optimizes commitment utilization with a combination of machine learning, automation and dedicated analysis to ensure your commitments are:
- Purchased for any relevant cloud service you consume
- Fully utilized across cloud providers, accounts and services
- Dynamically reassigned to match changing workloads
- Prioritized over on-demand and spot instances
Power-boost your cloud cost tooling
Cloud Commitment Management doesn’t replace your cloud cost monitoring tool, rather it adds a layer of automation to optimize your RI/SP purchasing:
| Capability | Without Cloud Commitment Management |
With Cloud Commitment Management |
|---|---|---|
| Visibility into spend | ✅ | ✅ |
| Commitment automation | ❌ | ✅ |
| Real-time reassignment | ❌ | ✅ |
| Multi-cloud support | Partial | ✅ |
| ESR tracking across services | Limited | ✅ |
| Risk-free pricing* | ❌ | ✅ |
*Cloud Commitment Management’s pricing model is risk-free: customers only pay a percentage of the savings CCM unlocks—no savings, no fee.
Real results
In one recent case, a Flexera One Cloud Cost Optimization customer with 90% commitment coverage added Cloud Commitment Management and unlocked an additional $150K/month in savings—while freeing up internal resources previously dedicated to manual commitment management.
“Cloud Commitment Management doubled our ESR and gave our team back hours each week. It’s a no-brainer.” — Flexera One Cloud Commitment Management customer
Ready to go beyond cloud cost visibility?
If you’re already optimizing cloud costs, it’s time to automate your commitments. Cloud Cost Management helps you:
- Maximize savings across AWS, Azure and GCP
- Minimize lock-in and waste
- Scale your FinOps maturity from the crawl level to run
Ready to learn more about the value of your cloud commitments? Download our eBook for a full rundown of how to manage commitments without breaking the bank.
Reach out for information about how Cloud Cost Management can unlock the full value of your cloud commitments, and register for our webinar to learn how you can take your first step toward FinOps automation with Flexera One Cloud Commitment Management.
