Strategic Blue

About

We optimize cloud pricing, balancing flexibility and cost, for digital innovators.We are supporting a future where leading-edge cloud solutions compete in an accessible & vibrant market, scaling innovation to tackle the world’s challenges at an affordable price.Optimal cloud pricing since 2010At Strategic Blue, we care deeply about the world we live in, and believe that cloud can benefit society, particularly when used efficiently, and for worthwhile use cases.We have a particular passion for supporting digital innovators in science, research, education & healthcare, as they build cloud solutions to tackle the world’s growing list of challenges. Our team will always go the extra mile to give them back time and savings to make their contribution to society. We do this by ensuring our customers access optimal cloud pricing. Where we fit inCloud "FinOps" covers many disciplines from cost optimization, through chargeback, to unit economics. Our FinOps experts offer free advice on all these topics. However, our core services focus on rate optimization, the side of cost optimization that simplifies all the other disciplines when done well. You can "pay less for AWS" by optimizing usage, and by optimizing the discount rate applied to your usage.  We focus on the rate, so you can focus on optimizing your usage. Our services deliver rate optimization through advanced commitment management, allowing you to retain your flexibility to change your usage as needed.Our customers benefit from free ongoing access to our experts, to advise them on all aspects of Cloud FinOps.We routinely deliver rate optimization services to customers leveraging other AWS partners for migrations, Well-Architected Reviews, or right-sizing and refactoring engagements.Our partnership with AWSWe hold Advanced Tier partner status with AWS.  AWS have awarded us a Competency for Education, i.e. for the vertical with the most FinOps complexity.  We also meet the extra Solution Provider requirements necessary for resale into Public Sector organizations.Our partnerships with Google & other cloud vendorsWe support customers who often need to leverage multiple cloud vendors, most commonly AWS & Google, but sometimes Microsoft Azure & IBM Cloud. We hold Premier Partner Status with Google.