FORGE · CLOUD COST OPTIMIZATION
Cut your cloud bill without the lock in
iTmethods operates your FinOps and, powered by Archera, replaces rigid multi year commitments with insured commitments that adapt to your real usage every 30 days.
Paying for capacity you do not use.
Static Reserved Instances and multi year commitments assume your usage will hold still for one to three years. It will not. The result is capacity you pay for and do not use, or flexibility you keep and overpay for.
Commit for three years and hope
Lock in a discount against a forecast, then carry the risk when workloads shrink, move, or get re-architected.
Adapt every 30 days
Insured commitments track your real usage on a 30 day cycle, so the discount stays and the lock in risk goes.
The same discounts. None of the lock in.
Insured commitments deliver the same discount tiers as Reserved Instances, with insurance against underutilization and 30 day flexibility. Here is how it works:
Commit with insurance
Take the same discount tiers as Reserved Instances, with insurance against underutilization built in from day one.
Adapt every 30 days
Commitments track your real usage on a 30 day cycle instead of a one-to-three year bet on what your estate will look like.
Stay covered as workloads change
If usage drops, the insured commitment covers the unused portion. You keep the savings without carrying the lock in risk.
Not a dashboard you run alone.
Visibility, right sizing, and governed cloud spend, run by an AWS Advanced Tier MSP.
Visibility
Unified spend visibility across your cloud estate, so every dollar is attributable before anyone argues about it.
Right sizing
Idle resources and oversized instances found and fixed as an operated practice, not an annual cleanup project.
Governed cloud spend
Budget rules and commitment strategy run by an AWS Advanced Tier MSP. Not a dashboard you run alone.
Looking for the full cloud and AI cost practice, including AI workload economics? See Cloud and AI Cost Optimization on Forge.
Savings without lock in risk.
Enterprises with growing AWS, Azure or GCP spend that want savings without lock in risk. If your cloud bill is climbing and your commitment strategy is a spreadsheet and a hope, this is the operated alternative.
Built on open foundations
Member and contributor in the open standards behind governed AI. The Linux Foundation, FINOS, and the Agentic AI Foundation.
Four questions before the cost review.
- What is an insured commitment?
- An insured commitment gives you the same discount tiers as Reserved Instances, with insurance against underutilization and 30 day flexibility. If your workloads change, unused commitments are covered instead of stranded. Insured commitments are powered by Archera and operated for you by iTmethods.
- How is this different from Reserved Instances?
- Reserved Instances and multi year savings plans lock you in for one to three years and assume your usage will not change. Insured commitments deliver the same discount tiers while adapting to your real usage every 30 days, so you are not paying for capacity you no longer use.
- Which clouds are supported?
- AWS, Azure, and GCP, including multi-cloud estates. The operated FinOps practice covers visibility, right sizing, and governed cloud spend across all three.
- What does iTmethods operate vs Archera?
- Archera provides the insured commitment technology and the cost intelligence behind it. iTmethods operates the FinOps practice on top: visibility, right sizing, commitment strategy, and governed cloud spend, run by an AWS Advanced Tier and Validated MSP. You get an operated outcome, not a dashboard you run alone.
Book a cloud cost review.
Tell us about your cloud spend.
We will map where your spend is going and what insured commitments and operated FinOps would change.