All workshops
Private, hands-on workshops with the toolkit maintainers
Rate optimization
How rate optimization shows up in FOCUS and the FinOps toolkit, worked through on your own commitments.
$4,000
Plan your workshopYou bring
Your cost and commitment data, and the people who decide on commitments.
We build together
Your rate picture, measured on your own data, and the process for keeping it managed.
You leave with
A commitment-management process your team runs, and the query patterns to answer rate questions on your own data.
Is this for you?
- Commitments get bought ad hoc, and nobody owns the follow-up
- You can’t say today what your effective savings rate is
- Finance asks what you saved, and the answer is a shrug
What we’ll work through
We work through how rate optimization is represented in FOCUS and the FinOps toolkit, and how to answer the questions that matter on your own data: utilization, coverage, effective savings rate, remaining terms, and what you actually save. Then we shape a commitment-management process your team runs.
- How FOCUS and the FinOps toolkit represent rate optimization
- Which instruments apply to you: reservations, savings plans, Enterprise Discounts, and commitment tiers, and where they do not combine
- Where you stand: coverage, utilization, and effective savings rate on your own data
- Remaining terms and effective savings, and how to keep them answerable
- What the docs don’t tell you about rate optimization
- A commitment-management process your team can run
What stays with your team
- Query patterns for coverage, utilization, effective savings rate, and remaining terms
- Your rate picture as it stands today, measured on your own data
- A commitment-management process your team runs
- A clear view of which discount instruments apply to you, and how they interact
What the price covers
Included
How FOCUS and the FinOps toolkit represent rate optimization, and the query patterns that answer utilization, coverage, effective savings rate, remaining-term, and effective-savings questions on your data. How Enterprise Discounts and commitment tiers relate to reservations and savings plans, and where they do not combine. A commitment-management process your team takes into its own practice.
What we tailor to you
Which discount instruments apply to you, which questions we work through, and how the process fits the way your team already decides.
If you need more than this
We do not buy, broker, or manage commitments on your behalf. We work through the signals, the options, and the decision process with you; making and executing the commitment decisions stays with your team. A plan is where ongoing expert input comes from as you do.