Finance
A flat monthly fee, whatever Reserver saves you.
The budget holder who signs off on the bill and the forecast underneath it. A three-year commitment is easy to approve and hard to reverse, and a vendor paid a share of the savings has no reason to keep that number small.
The budget holder who signs off on the bill and the forecast underneath it.
- You need the payback period before you approve a new line item
- A vendor paid a percentage of your savings profits most when your bill is worst
- You want to model the cost before anyone connects an AWS account
Where this role gets blindsided
Same role, same three blind spots.
The leak
A tool priced as a percentage of savings
A vendor paid a share of what it finds has no reason to keep that number small. The incentive runs the wrong way for whoever is footing the bill.
What Reserver does
One flat price, every tier. Watch, Autopilot, and Scale each charge a flat monthly fee. The bill doesn't move when the savings do.
The leak
A commitment you can't model in advance
A three-year reservation is easy to approve and hard to reverse. Without the payback math in front of you first, it's a guess dressed up as a decision.
What Reserver does
The math, line by line. The Business Case builder lays out the situation, the cost, and the payback period from numbers you type in.
The leak
A surprise on next month's bill
A renewal that lapses reverts to the on-demand rate, and the first anyone hears of it is the invoice.
What Reserver does
Priced before it happens. Reserver shows the cost of a missed renewal in dollars ahead of time, so it goes into the forecast before it reaches the bill.
The fee against the saving
Priced for your fleet size.
A lapsed renewal reverts to the on-demand rate with no warning label on the bill it lands on.
A renewal missed by 14 days runs about $92.
On Watch, catching it costs nothing.
Watch is free, so you keep all of the $10,530 a year.
A renewal missed by 14 days runs about $951.
A single prevented miss pays for about 6 months of Autopilot.
Saves about $105,300 a year. That is 59× Autopilot's fee, which is 2% of the saving.
A renewal missed by 14 days runs about $6,904.
A single prevented miss pays for a year or more of Scale.
Saves about $1,053,000 a year. That is 176× Scale's fee, which is 0.6% of the saving.
Objections
Straight answers for finance
Does Reserver take a percentage of what it saves us?
No. Every plan is a flat monthly fee, whether Reserver finds a small saving or a large one.
Can I see the numbers before we connect an account?
Yes. The Business Case builder and the savings calculator both run on a fleet size you type in. Neither needs an AWS connection, so you see the math before you commit to anything.
What does a missed renewal actually cost us?
It reverts the covered usage to the on-demand rate for as long as the lapse lasts. The Business Case builder prices that gap from your own numbers.
Does the flat fee still make sense for a very small fleet?
It does when the saving covers the fee. Watch is free. The Business Case builder shows the payback for your own fleet size before you approve anything.
Proof, not a promise
Three accounts, read for your job.
The fee is small next to what each account found. Read the saving on each card, then check the payback against your own numbers.
RDS · ElastiCache · EC2 · 1 account
One missed renewal and one tier never reserved. We priced both.
RDS · ElastiCache · EC2 · 6 regions
Twelve years of careful reviews still missed money between review dates.
RDS · ElastiCache · EC2 · 40 accounts · AWS Organizations
Each account looks fine alone. The loss shows only across all 40.
Your take-away
One tool, built for this job.
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