How Archera works
In a 30-minute demo, we'll analyze your actual AWS or Azure spend and show you what Archera's GRIs and GSPs would save — broken down by service, workload type, and commitment term.
Most commitment management tools want admin access to your billing account and make purchasing decisions you can't see until after the fact. Archera doesn't work that way. You approve purchases. You see the cost of every Insured Commitment upfront. Archera connects via read-only permissions and never touches your infrastructure.
Competitors either charge a percentage of your savings to manage commitments you could have bought directly — or they offer commitments with no downside protection at all. If usage changes, you absorb the loss. Archera's Guaranteed Reserved Instances and Guaranteed Savings Plans are the only products on the market that include a guaranteed rebate if a commitment goes underutilized. Full vendor optionality. Real downside protection.
Archera doesn't ask you to scale down to cut costs. It optimizes the rates you pay for the compute and storage you're already running. Your infrastructure doesn't change. Your product performance doesn't change. Your bill does — because you're paying reservation rates instead of on-demand, on 30-day terms you actually trust.
A 1-year RI on a GPU workload that changes shape every few months is a financial liability. Archera's 30-day minimum lets you capture reservation-rate discounts on compute windows you can partially predict — a training run, an inference scaling period, a sprint of model evaluation — without locking in on timelines that don't exist. Cover more of your GPU spend at better rates, with a rebate guarantee if the workload shifts mid-term.
With Archera’s “robot” automation handling RDS reservations, the team can secure three-year discounts on a 30-day commitment. This flexibility allows Platform9 to be aggressive with cost management, cutting expenses without constant oversight.
I think Reserved Instances or general bulk discounts on Amazon are fairly challenging … our volumes and our loads change fairly significantly … for us to go out and buy a one-year subscription for a Reserved Instance is something thatwe had never really considered because, what we thought was overloaded six months ago is now extremely underutilized today, and we would have just been stuck with that commitment for a year.
Scott Tsuchiyama
Director of Engineering, Spec
Full transparency: there have been other vendors that have reached out to me before … I never moved off of Archera because I think there are a lot of things about Archera that gives us the wins that we need and the savings that we are looking for with very little effort on our part. We implement Archera and then, from there, Archera is running in the background in order to get us those savings — those things are very, very valuable.
Kim Leung
Engineering Lead, Infrastructure, Hex
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