Cloud savings vendors make a lot of promises. We think the mechanics should speak for themselves.
Typical Reseller
Buys commitments in a shared pool across unrelated customers
Savings depend on how other companies in the pool behave
Commitment risk stays on your financial statements
Savings rate varies month to month with no guarantee
You bear underutilization risk if you scale down
Commits its own capital, per customer, based on your individual forecast
Savings depend entirely on your usage — nobody else's
Zero commitments on your financial statements, ever
Savings rate guaranteed contractually — it doesn't change
We absorb all underutilization risk with our own money
Cloud Capital makes money two ways: a share of the AWS partner margin and a share of the savings generated through commitment optimization. In short, we make money when you save money.
“Cloud spend used to feel like a black box. With Cloud Capital, we now treat it the way we treat payroll: predictable, governed, and defensible.”
Wouter Hendricks
CFO @ Shiftmove
How your savings are protected
Cloud Capital maintains a dedicated cash reserve to back its commitment obligations. This reserve exists to protect customer savings continuity regardless of business conditions and to ensure that commitments made on your behalf are honored.
Every access decision is designed around the same principle: Cloud Capital sees your billing data, and only your billing data. Here is exactly what that means.
Cloud Capital reads your AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR) data via a read-only IAM role your team creates. We use this data to build your cost structure, generate forecasts, and surface savings opportunities. We do not access infrastructure, application data, logs, or account configurations.
Cloud Capital purchases commitments through a dedicated AWS account your team creates within your Organization. You review and approve the setup, and commitments distribute across your accounts automatically per AWS's standard sharing behavior.
Every integration is created by your team, scoped to minimum access, and fully reversible.
“Cloud Capital gives us a clear, reliable view of how our workloads translate into financial impact. It keeps our technical roadmap intact while giving finance the data it needs to plan with confidence.”
Ryan Cauldwell
CTO @ Harbr Data
Cloud Capital analyzes your historical AWS spend, identifies committable spend across compute and database workloads, and builds a structured savings proposal tailored to your environment. Coverage builds incrementally, and nothing is purchased without your sign-off. Usage fluctuates — your rate doesn't.
See how commitment optimization worksCloud Capital uses AWS Billing Transfer — a native AWS feature — to manage your consolidated bill. Only the billing relationship moves. Your AWS Organizations structure, accounts, IAM policies, and infrastructure remain under your control. Discounts and Cloud Capital’s margin are shown transparently on every invoice.
“For the first time, I have a clear and predictable view of cloud costs. It’s the kind of visibility every CFO wishes they had.”
Wouter Hendricks
CFO @ Shiftmove
Invoice
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March 2026
PaidDiscounts and Cloud Capital’s margin shown on every bill
We make money when you save money.
Every part of the model, the forecasting, the commitments, the billing, is built around that single rule.