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What do you like best about Strategic Blue?

Their consultative approach to the individual client need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Strategic Blue?

Explaning the benefits and process to non-technical stakeholders Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Strategic Blue solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS costs are our largest non-staff cost. Working with the group has helped our cloud engineering and dev ops teams to optimise and buying instances through Strategic blue has reduced costs further Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Strategic Blue?

Managed cost optimisation. We’ll manage commitments like reserved instances and savings plans to free your team to innovate in a way that gives you the flexibility to change. Save time - Hand off the pain of commitment management to the experts Save money - Do more, spend less. Get the most value from your cloud budget Stay flexible - Full freedom to scale up, or down, without compromising savings

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Strategic blue will manage commitments like reserved instances and savings plans to free your team to innovate in a way that gives you the flexibility to change.


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Year Founded
2010
HQ Location
London
Twitter
@StrategicBlue
807 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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43 employees on LinkedIn®

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Philip C.
PC
Philip C.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Excellent team to work with, always looking for ways to save money on the AWS bill"
The team are really approachable and helpful. We have regular calls with them to sync up on our bills and any concerns there might be. They provide...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great service, simplifies billing, save money"
The level of service, the transparency of pricing, the flexibility of usage.
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Cloud Service Cost Optimization at its Best."
They are honest experts in optimizing Cloud Services costs. From the start, they have gone above and beyond to help us optimize our costs even if ...
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Philip C.
PC
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Strategic Blue?

The team are really approachable and helpful. We have regular calls with them to sync up on our bills and any concerns there might be. They provide a detailed analysis of how our costs have changed over the last few months, highlighting specific services where costs might have gone up unexpectedly, or areas where we can save money like moving off older generation EC2 instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Strategic Blue?

Nothing. They save us money on our AWS bill - what's to dislike about that? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Strategic Blue solving and how is that benefiting you?

They find ways to reduce our AWS bill with virtually zero effort on our part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

George K.
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What do you like best about Strategic Blue?

Fantastic experience working with Strategic Blue. Their ease of engagement and tailored approach made it seamless to optimise our AWS costs.

They are highly proactive, continuously adapting to changing AWS pricing models and usage patterns to ensure we maximise our savings. Their expertise in cloud financial management has provided us with greater cost transparency and efficiency.

A true FinOps partner that delivers real value! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Strategic Blue?

Nothing to dislike about SB! The guys are always listening to our feedback and taking it onboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Strategic Blue solving and how is that benefiting you?

Delivering Cloud FinOP and saving on our cloud bill Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Strategic Blue?

They are honest experts in optimizing Cloud Services costs. From the start, they have gone above and beyond to help us optimize our costs even if it reduces the amount we work with them. They provide extensive monthly reports with usage information and recommendations and will meet with you as often as you like to implement those recommendations. I would not recommend anyone else at all! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Strategic Blue?

There is always room for improvement, but they are always happy to help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Strategic Blue solving and how is that benefiting you?

AWS Cloud Expense optimization and they are helping us to understand/reduce our costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about Strategic Blue?

The level of service, the transparency of pricing, the flexibility of usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Strategic Blue?

Don't dislike anything, but an integrated service that includes first/second-line support for cloud services would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Strategic Blue solving and how is that benefiting you?

1) We wanted to integrate our AWS accounts into a single billing process

2) We wanted to commit to certain CPU usage commitments over 12 months but pay monthly

3) We wanted flexibility in compute commitments rather than be tied to specific reserved instances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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What do you like best about Strategic Blue?

I met Strategic Blue when I was at AWS and called them to help with questions and advice when I moved to IronNet Cyber Security. They are deep experts in cloud services (AWS and MSFT) who provide pragmatic and clear direction on challenges. They address current architectures and environments and help you plan and move forward strategically with your cloud usage and architectures. They take time to learn your environment, ask questions and collaborate rather than just dictate solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Strategic Blue?

I see very little downside with their approach and buiness model. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Strategic Blue solving and how is that benefiting you?

Over and incorrect purchase of AWS. Their advice and counsel set a more sustainable path forward and explained aspects of the contracts and consumption in a way that allowed for better decision making. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Strategic Blue?

They are a fantastic team to work with; they have provided a lot of insight into Cloud cost, and as a result we were able to optimize. Overall we could reduce cloud spending and invest that money into more strategic planning. We were able to create cost analysis dashboard with the teams help, which is used across different functions and helped us to create amazing projections in terms of cloud spending in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Strategic Blue?

Last few years have been amazing and they have always find ways to provide better service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Strategic Blue solving and how is that benefiting you?

They provide a deep dive into cloud cost management, which helps companies optimize cost and utilize resources better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jessica R.
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What do you like best about Strategic Blue?

Excellent customer service, the Strategic Blue team is reliable and goes above and beyond to provide personalized support, answering inquiries promptly and providing valuable guidance when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Strategic Blue?

N/A, Strategic Blue has been wonderful to work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Strategic Blue solving and how is that benefiting you?

Strategic Blue offers transparent consolidated monthly invoices that significantly reduce the administrative burden of managing invoices from multiple cloud vendors. Strategic Blue continuously offers valuable insights on our cloud costs, they provide cost reports and recommendations tailored to meet our dynamic FinOps needs. They also offer flexible savings commitments with even better discounts that increase our savings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Darren T.
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What do you like best about Strategic Blue?

I have used StrategicBlue's services three times and each time I have had a successful experience. Their team is knowledgeable, helpful, and focused on delivering results. They provide an easy to use platform that makes it simple to access the services I need. StrategicBlue is an invaluable resource for businesses looking to save costs and remain competitive in a digital market. Highly recommended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Strategic Blue?

Granting AWS access has sometimes caused issues, but this is minor issue, barely worth mentioning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Strategic Blue solving and how is that benefiting you?

Manage and streamline cloud procurement, and ultimately reduce costs, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Arthur C.
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What do you like best about Strategic Blue?

SB have provided cost alerting, control and detailed advice on all our AWS spend, and their consultants really do know their stuff.

They've even applied discounts to our instances in more flexible ways than are normally possible, saving us significant cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Strategic Blue?

Honestly, there's very little to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Strategic Blue solving and how is that benefiting you?

As an organisation new to the cloud, we were looking for a partner that would allow us to have visibility and control of our spend, and allow our teams to up skill in cost management and finops Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ravel L.
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What do you like best about Strategic Blue?

They are always ready to help and discuss the right strategy for cloud spending. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Strategic Blue?

I don't have anything to complain about. I believe we get the most out of this partnership. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Strategic Blue solving and how is that benefiting you?

Since we started working with Strategic Blue we could increase our savings on AWS. We went beyond the savings we already had and increased savings through the partnership and active review of cloud spending. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.