Frequently asked questions

Perfect Savings Plan is a monthly Savings Plan that covers 100% coverage of eligible EC2, Fargate & Lambda usage and giving you a 1 one year discount.

It operates like a 1 year, no upfront AWS Compute Savings Plan, except that:

• you make no hourly usage commitment, so you do not need to make any usage forecasts
• you have no management overhead, as it automatically scales each month to cover all persistent usage
• you have no risk of missing savings through under-committing or wasting money by over-committing
• Additional savings can be made with our team for other services eligible for RIs and SPs and through the OGVA. We work with you to create a recommended approach you approve.

A technical person with AWS budget responsibility should evaluate the Perfect Savings Plan. Often this is the CTO or the Head of Engineering.

Yes.

We made Perfect Savings Plan for Small innovative businesses.

It eliminates the need for in-house expertise cloud rate management and many Excel.

Perfect Savings Plan service is completely free.

We get paid by AWS as your reseller and by buying more commitments.

You can estimate the extra savings from the Perfect Savings Plan. Follow the steps here. 

Yes. Perfect Savings Plan complements existing commitments and replaces them as they expire.

The ROI of the Perfect Savings Plan occurs in the first month of utilisation. The only cost of the Perfect Savings Plan is the engineer's time (30-60 minutes) during setup.

Savings depend on usage patterns but are significant for predictable workloads. "You get the 1 year nothing upfront compute savings plan discounts for your resources.

For most workload it looks like this:
12%-15% on Lambda and Windows
20% on Faregate and RHEL
20%+ on Linux and Suse"

You can estimate your extra savings thanks to the Perfect Savings Plan by following the steps here. 

Perfect Savings Plan delivers savings immediately. 

No. Perfect Savings Plan simplifies cost management. It only needs minimal technical input during onboarding.

Yes, the Perfect Savings Plan covers anything that a Savings Plan can cover. Including ECS and EKS.

Yes. The Perfect Savings Plan and Spot instances are compatible; however, as AWS Savings Plans, they are mutually exclusive. You get the spot price on Spot instances. The Perfect Savings Plan affects non-spot instances.

Perfect Savings Plan does NOT have any access to your AWS accounts or data. You can find more information on the Strategic Blue security page.

Visit the Perfect Savings Plan website, the or send an email to the creator of Perfect Savings Plan (click).

Perfect Savings Plan will adapt automatically and follow your usage. Any resources that run for over 90% of a calendar month receive the discount if a savings plan can cover it.

If your usage increases one month, Perfect Savings Plan coverage will increase. If your usage decreases one month, Perfect Savings Plan coverage will decrease. The Perfect Savings Plan is perfect because it is calculated after the event.

No.

Perfect Savings Plan is free and will always be. We get recognition from AWS as a reseller and from doing "arbitrage".

Perfect Savings Plan will NOT impact

• Any technical setup.
  Your security stands.
  Your relationship with AWS.

It will have an impact on some non-technical aspects of using AWS.

• AWS invoices will come and be paid to Strategic Blue.
  AWS native cost information will only be available through the Strategic Blue portal (ie no access to Cost Explorer)
  Access to buying Reserved Instances and Savings Plans is forbidden.
   

Perfect Savings Plan optimizes your AWS costs by retroactiverly applying each month the perfect savings plan for your usage. PSP guarantees 100% coverage, and no risk.

Each new month, we look back at the previous month and calculate 100% coverage for your SP-covered persistent usage. We then give you a one year, nothing upfront, compute Savings Plan discount on that usage.

By looking into the past, you get perfection, each month.

You can estimate the extra savings from the Perfect Savings Plan. Follow the steps here. 

After you fill in the contract request form and get approval, Strategic Blue will follow the recommended AWS approach for onboarding. It differs for a small number of accounts compared to a large number. 

For customers with 1 - 10 accounts, not using Org services, Strategic Blue uses the invitation path:

Strategic Blue will create a new Payer and will send invites to each account listed in the form. If the accounts are in an AWS Organisation, they must leave it and join the new one. 

For customers using Organizational Services, or with over 10 accounts, or both, Strategic Blue uses the AWS Consent to Assignment (CTA) path.

• Strategic Blue provides the steps for you to kick-start the process with AWS.
• AWS can take up to 14 days to generate the AWS confirmation letter. Usually, it takes less than seven days. 
• Review and DocuSign the AWS confirmation letter.
• Have a half-hour call with Strategic Blue to:
  • Change the payer email address to a strategic-blue.com email address.
  • Update the tax settings.
  • Update the billing preferences.
• Strategic Blue uses a few least-privilege roles to enable our service. This keeps all your existing configurations as they were before.

Yes.

Perfect Savings Plan complies with data privacy regulations. It inherits the security credentials of Strategic Blue:

• Cyber Essentials
• CSA STAR
• ISO 27001:2022
• ISO 9001:2015
• ISO 14001:2015
• FSQS Registered

You can find more details on the Strategic Blue site.