Short-term commitments · Guaranteed Commitments

Cut cloud costs with no lock-in risk

Get committed-rate pricing on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud with terms as short as 30 days — around 30% off on-demand, net of premium. If your usage changes, you're covered: we rebate what you don't use, or you release the commitment entirely.

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~30%

net savings vs on-demand

30 days

net savings vs on-demand

to find your savings (free platform)

The problem

Cloud commitments force a bad trade

Lock into a 1- or 3-year reservation and you get the discount until your usage shifts and you're paying for capacity you no longer run. Stay on-demand to keep your options open and you leave roughly 30% on the table. Most teams hedge somewhere in the middle and lose both ways: under-committed on the stable stuff, over-committed on the stuff that changed.

It's a choice between savings and flexibility. You shouldn't have to make it.

WHAT IT IS

Short-term commitments remove the trade

A short-term commitment is a standard cloud commitment that Archera stands behind. You get a long-term commitment discount rate with a term as short as 30 days. After the first 30 days, if you stop using the capacity, you're covered: Archera automatically rebates the cost you're no longer using, or you can release the commitment entirely so it's off your books. You keep the savings; Archera takes the downside.

Standard 1 or 3-year commitment +
Archera's guarantee =
Commitment-rate savings with a 30-day term

3 steps

How it works

step 1

Find the spend

Connect your cloud bill. The free platform (and Archera AI) finds the on-demand usage you can safely commit, and shows the net savings after the premium — no guesswork.

step 2

Commit short

Buy a 30-day commitment with the guarantee built in. Archera procures the underlying reservation inside your own cloud account. The premium shows up as a single line item on your existing cloud bill.

step 1

Stay covered

After 30 days, keep saving automatically. If usage drops, Archera detects underutilization and rebates the cost. You can also release the commitment or move stable workloads to a longer-term option for deeper savings.

WHEN TO USE IT

Built for the spend you'd never commit to a year

Migrations

Quote and capture committed rates during the ramp, before the new environment is even built. "We can't commit mid-migration" stops being a blocker.

Variable & seasonal workloads

over the spend that spikes and dips without betting on a year of steady usage.

New initiatives & R&D

Put savings on experimental workloads that might scale or might shut down next quarter.

GPU & AI workloads

De-risk GPU and token commitments where demand and instance types move fast.

Architecture changes

Migrating VMs to containers or serverless, or jumping instance generations? Don't get stranded on a commitment you've outgrown.

Test before you scale

Prove out savings on a single line item, then graduate stable workloads to 1-year for an even deeper rate.

WHY IS IT SAFE

Your account. Your control.

Everything runs in your own cloud account. Archera doesn't take over your account, bulk-buy, or arbitrage. Your relationship with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud is unchanged.

Free to find out. The platform and your savings analysis cost nothing. You only pay a premium on the commitments you choose to protect.

One line item. The premium transacts through your cloud marketplace and shows up as a single line on the bill you already get. No new invoices.

Transparent break-even. Every recommendation shows the break-even point, so you know exactly when a commitment beats on-demand.

Proof

Teams with unpredictable usage run on short-term commitments

211% Growth

Genomic sequencing volumes swing with customer demand, and spend grew 211% in a single year. Short-term commitments let them cover variable R&D and sequencing workloads at committed rates without locking experimental infrastructure into multi-year terms.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is this insurance?

No. You're buying a normal cloud commitment; Archera guarantees to cover any loss if your usage drops, through resale or rebate.

How short can the term really be?

As short as 30 days. After that you can keep it, release it, or move it to a longer term for more savings.

What does it cost?

A premium that's already reflected in the net savings rate you see before you commit. The platform and analysis are free.

What happens if I don't use the capacity?

If you take no action, Archera detects the underutilization and rebates the cost automatically. If you'd rather, you can actively release the commitment so it comes off your books entirely.

Which clouds?

AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Do you take over my account?

No. Commitments are purchased and managed inside your own cloud account.

See your savings before you commit to anything

Connect your cloud bill and get a free analysis of exactly what you'd save with short-term commitments — net of premiums, with break-even on every line.