Strategic Blue

Strategic Blue is a cloud FinOps company that was founded in 2010. It helps organisations buy cloud resources on terms that suit their finances and contracts, and it focuses today on managing AWS commitments such as Reserved Instances and Savings Plans.

The firm began with the aim of trading cloud resources and making markets across the major public cloud providers.

What Strategic Blue offers

• AWS rate optimisation — handling one-year and three-year discounts without fixed spend or usage commitments.
• Cost visibility — a portal and reporting showing spending, savings, benchmarks and usage trends.
• Commitment management — expert oversight of commitments so customers need less forecasting.
• Secure access — a connection limited to cost and usage data, with no control over the customer's environment.
• Cloud procurement — flexible purchase terms from a financial adaptor for cloud.

Who it works with

Digital businesses, large enterprises and UK public sector organisations.

Key facts

• Founded: 2010.
• Platform focus: AWS.
• Contract style: no lock-in agreements.