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The prepratory steps: Once you have completed the onboarding process to enable Commitment Optimization Cloud Capital will work with you to optimize your commitment savings potential for your organization. The technical onboarding steps that allow Cloud Capital to purchase the commitments on your behalf are very simple. Cloud Capital will schedule a meeting to walk you through this process if it is unfamiliar to you.

You will need to able to login to the Organizational Management AWS account with the approproate role or permissions. Step 1: Create an new empty commitment account in your AWS Organization. This can be done via the AWS Console, terraform, or cloud formation. The AWS documentation link is here that will describe this process.

Step 2: Login to your account on the Cloud Capital application website. Step 3: In another tab in the same browser, login to the new commitment account that you created above in Step 1 with an Admin role assumption or login. Step 4: Back to the Cloud Capital app tab and go to the Cost Allocation page via the infinity sign on the left side menu. Once in there in the top right click on the Manage Cloud Providers gear button. Step 5: This brings you to a page that says Cloud Provider Integrations, click on the Manage drop down button and choose Cost Optimization Role. Step 6: This brings you to a page that says Cost Optimization AWS Role. We are going to install the role that allows Cloud Capital to purchase commitments into this empty new account. Commitments are purchased into this account in your organization so that they will distribute across your organizational accounts the most optimized way as per AWS design and best practice.

Step 7: Click on the button that says “Run Cloud Formation Stack”, click that to open an AWS console page that has the inputs for the AWS Cloudformation open. All of the inputs for this cloudformation are pre-populated for you. You can open the template to review what the role will have for permissions and what it’s doing via cloud formation. This allows Cloud Capital to automate assumption of this role we are adding so that when you approve the commitments we propose during our weekly or monthly calls. Step 8: At the bottom of this page is a blue box with a checkbox that you acknowledge that this cloud formation stack will create resources. Check that box and on the bottom right click on the yellow Create Stack button. Step 9: This will start the stack creation process which takes about 3-4 minutes. Once this has completed click on the outputs tab for this stack we just ran. In that outputs section copy the ARN for the role that the cloud formation stack created. Step 10: Back to the Cloud Capital app tab that you were at previously. There is a box to paste in this Role ARN into. The Role ARN should look similar to this: arn:aws:iam::############:role/CloudCapitalOptimizationRole Step 11: Once you have pasted in that Role ARN it will change the commitment Buying drop down to Enabled. Click the Test Role button to test that this role works with our system. If all is good you should see some confetti pop up on the screen. Step 12: Click the Save button at the far right of this page to complete the onboarding. Congratulations!!

Now that you are onboarded the Cloud Capital Customer Success team will schedule a series of meetings with you and your team that will begin the process of reviewing your cloud spend forecast, business initiatives, any inputs from business metrics and your cloud architecture spend trends. From those discussions Cloud Capital will use it’s application to propose a ladder sequence of savings commitments that will optimize your cloud savings potential while Cloud Capital takes on the risk of these commitments.