PubNub
+5 pts
Gross margin
95% to 98% coverage on previously untouchable on-demand spend. No engineering effort.
Managed Cloud Optimization
Cut cloud spend. Lift gross margin. Always free.
An always-free FinOps service, with paid tiers that add AWS security and compliance — designed to reduce cloud spend and improve cost of goods sold for software products listed on cloud marketplaces.
What you get, always free
Savings first — no fee, no engineering.
Paid tiers from $500/month add security and compliance.
Up to 43% off on-demand
Often enough to offset your listing costs — or fund the next one.
COGS Optimization Check-In
A standing monthly or quarterly review of what your cloud spend does to cost of goods sold.
No engineering work
No migration, nothing to build — and the platform itself is free.
Why it works
The trade-off native commitments force.
The binary trap
The shortest commitment any cloud sells is a year. Take one and you pay for capacity you stop using when demand shifts or a workload moves.
A hard coverage cap
Native commitments alone cap most teams at 60–80% coverage, leaving 20–40% of reservable spend at on-demand rates — 30%+ above committed pricing.
Insured commitments close that gap to 95–100% coverage, with downside protection.
The math
Cloud spend is a gross-margin decision.
The part of your cloud bill not yet under commitment is where this works — and what comes off it lands in gross margin.
$4.0Mreservable spend
37%blended savings
$1.48Mback to gross profit
+3.7gross-margin points
Illustrative on $40M ARR and $4.0M of reservable cloud spend a year — the share of your bill eligible for commitments — at the platform’s portfolio rate. We rebuild it on your actual billing data in the free analysis.
Proof
Results from the platform this service runs on.
$20.2M net savings a year, at 93–100% utilization.
Astronomer
26 / 37%
Cost reduction · Azure / AWS
Coverage lifted to 86% on Azure and 94% on AWS across a multi-cloud estate.
Wayfair
+80%
Commitment coverage · GCP
Held through a re-platform across every node and region pair, on 30-day Insured CUDs.
Choose your tier
Free savings, plus security & compliance when you need it.
Every tier includes the free savings engine. Paid tiers add Well-Architected security posture checks, audit-ready compliance reporting and hands-on remediation support for your AWS accounts.
Free
Cut cloud spend, always free
$0per month
Best forAny team, on any of the three clouds
Foundations
Find your AWS security gaps
$500per month
Best forTeams facing customer security reviews
Growth
Prove compliance and fix findings
$1,000per month
Best forRegulated or externally audited workloads
Enterprise
Double the remediation hours
$2,500per month
Best forTeams with larger remediation backlogs
Prices are OBP’s monthly service fee. The platform itself is free, and insured commitments are priced into the discounts below.
| What’s included | Free$0 per month | Foundations$500 per month | Growth$1,000 per month | Enterprise$2,500 per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Savings analysisOn your actual billing data | ||||
| Insured commitmentsUp to 43% off on-demand on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud | ||||
| COGS Optimization Check-InMonthly or quarterly | ||||
| Well-Architected security posture checksAgentless, 250+ checks across 45+ AWS services | – | |||
| Audit-ready compliance reportingSOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST 800-53, CIS and FedRAMP Moderate | – | – | ||
| Remediation support hoursOBP engineers help your team apply fixes | – | – | 20 hours per quarter | 40 hours per quarter |
How the security tiers work
Agentless and read-only
Paid tiers add a read-only role to your AWS accounts. Nothing is installed and nothing runs in your environment.
Hands-on remediation
OBP engineers help your team fix findings: 20 hours a quarter on Growth, 40 on Enterprise.
Ready for audits
Growth and Enterprise map your AWS controls to SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS and more, with audit-ready evidence.
Security and compliance features cover AWS accounts. Cost optimization covers AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
How an insured commitment works
You carry 30 days. The platform carries the rest.
A standard three-year commitment with a downside risk-hedge on top. You commit 30 days at a time; the platform holds the three-year commitment underneath — it is not your liability. Coverage matches peak usage, and if usage drops the unused portion is refunded.
| Option | Your discount | Locked in for | Can you exit? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insured 30-dayNo native equivalent | 28.5% | 30 days | Yes |
| Native 1-year | 36% | 1 year | No |
| Insured 1-year | 42.75% | 1 year | Yes |
Native 3-year commitments discount deeper, at 57%, in exchange for three-year lock-in. The platform earns nothing on native terms, and is paid only on the terms it insures.
Coverage across all three clouds
Amazon Web Services
Reserved Instances & Savings Plans
Microsoft Azure
Reservations & Savings Plans
Google Cloud
Committed Use Discounts
For a SaaS estate this reaches well past compute: RDS, Aurora, OpenSearch, ElastiCache and Redshift.
Getting started
Live within 24 hours.
- 01
Connect
Read-only billing API access, installed from the cloud marketplace. Nothing runs in your environment.
- 02
Analyze
We build your coverage gap and savings model on your actual billing data, not a generic estimate.
- 03
Optimize
Commitments placed and insured. Savings begin accruing from the first billing period.
Certifications held by the platform this service runs on
- SOC 2 Type II
- ISO 27001:2022
- GDPR
- CCPA
- CPRA
Start with a free analysis of your cloud spend.
We build your coverage gap and savings model on your actual billing data — not a generic estimate — and show you what comes back to gross margin.