Introduction & Key Highlights

Commitment-based pricing models such as Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Committed Use Discounts offer powerful savings potential across cloud environments. Yet many organizations struggle to identify, evaluate, and capitalize on these opportunities, especially when operating across multiple cloud providers.

This case study highlights how a Healthcare Technology company partnered with SKYXOPS to analyze usage patterns, streamline commitment planning, and unlock meaningful savings through a unified rate optimization strategy across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Key Outcomes:

• Significant annual savings identified.
• Commitment coverage increased across all cloud providers.
• Discounted pricing secured for consistent workloads.
• Expiring reservations detected early for proactive renewal.

Customer Overview

The Customer is a Healthcare Technology company with workloads distributed across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Their cloud infrastructure supports production systems, development environments, and data processing pipelines.

A defining trait of their environment is steady, predictable compute usage ideal for long-term commitment pricing. However, these opportunities were largely untapped because many workloads continued to run on on-demand rates.

Challenges & Pain Points

Despite having highly commit-friendly workloads, the Customer faced several barriers to effective rate optimization:

• Missed Commitment Opportunities: Most compute resources were still billed at on-demand rates. Without centralized insights, opportunities for Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Committed Use Discounts frequently went unidentified.
• Manual Evaluation Complexity: Each cloud provider uses different pricing structures and commitment models. Evaluating options manually across three consoles made it extremely difficult for finance and operations teams to make confident purchasing decisions.
• Lifecycle Management Gaps: Underutilized reservations and expiring commitments were going unnoticed. Without unified visibility or automated alerts, resources drifted back to on-demand pricing, eroding potential savings.

The Solution: SKYXOPS Rate Optimization

The Customer adopted SKYXOPS RATE OPTIMIZATION to gain unified analysis, clear ROI insights, and fully automated commitment lifecycle management.

Meaningful Impact & Value

The SKYXOPS implementation dramatically strengthened the Customer's commitment strategy and unlocked substantial cost efficiencies.

Savings & Optimization Gains

• Major savings identified across AWS, Azure, and GCP through commitment-based pricing.
• Clear visibility into commitment opportunities that had previously gone unnoticed.

Commitment Coverage Transformation

Coverage levels rose significantly across all cloud platforms, resulting in far more workloads benefiting from discounted pricing.

The shift from ad-hoc purchasing to a structured, insight-driven approach delivered both financial and operational improvements.

Conclusion

By implementing SKYXOPS Rate Optimization, the Healthcare Technology company transformed their approach to cloud financial management. Substantial savings were uncovered simply by leveraging discounted pricing options that were already available but previously underutilized.

With automated renewal alerts, continuous monitoring, and unified visibility, the Customer transitioned from reactive commitment buying to a strategic, long-term commitment model that consistently maximizes cloud value.