Free · buyer-side
The Cloud Cost Optimization Playbook for 2026
A buyer side research playbook for cutting public cloud spend across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. It hands you the commitment, architecture, and governance frameworks our clients use to land a 31 percent median reduction in the first 90 days.
CIOs, CTOs, VPs of engineering, FinOps leads, cloud platform owners, and procurement leaders at organisations spending six figures or more a year on public cloud. It is written by the founders of MultiCloud Optimization on the buyer side, with zero provider commissions behind any recommendation.
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- Commitment strategy across AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, Azure Reservations and the Azure Savings Plan, GCP Committed Use Discounts, and OCI Universal Credits, framed as risk adjusted coverage rather than discount maximising.
- Enterprise agreement leverage: how the AWS EDP, the Azure MACC shortfall clause, and Oracle Universal Credits shape negotiation, and where a credible forecast becomes leverage.
- Architecture and rightsizing patterns that survive traffic spikes, including storage tiering, egress and NAT reduction, and Kubernetes request calibration.
- The FinOps operating model that holds the savings: decision rights, cadence, anomaly guardrails, and the FOCUS standard for cross cloud billing data.
- Worked tables showing where the first 20 to 40 percent of recovery typically sits, verified against billing data and anonymized.
Independent · buyer-side
Put a defensible number on your cloud spend.
No provider in the room, no published price list. Tell us your footprint and we will scope the savings against your billing data.