The AWS Commit You Can Actually Hit
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The cloud deal almost everyone signs and almost nobody models. The discount is real, the mechanics are simple, and the risk lives in one number, the committed spend. This session prices a real commitment schedule against the run rate it is supposed to grow out of.
Live on the sample workspace, the private pricing addendum is dropped on the benchmarking desk and opens as a worked deal: the ramp read off the paper, the program rate placed against comparable commitments, the shortfall priced year by year if the trailing growth simply continues, and the asks written beside the clauses they fix.
Between the live segments, the advisory desk cuts in with short recorded briefings: how commitment programs are actually structured, the counting rules that decide what feeds the number, multicloud posture as leverage you never have to exercise, and the week to run before anyone signs.
- 0:00Countdown
- 0:30Welcome: the year three where the curve was wrong
- 2:35Advisory desk: how commits are built
- 4:16Live: the addendum, read off the paper
- 6:27What the paper says
- 8:05Advisory desk: what counts toward the number
- 9:52Live: the schedule against the run rate
- 12:19The ask ladder
- 13:30Advisory desk: leverage you never exercise
- 15:03Live: the finance agenda
- 17:05Advisory desk: the week before you sign
- 18:49Your next step
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