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A Cloud Capital Business Review — whether it runs as a Quarterly Business Review (QBR) or a Management Business Review (MBR) — is a structured 45 to 60 minute session with your Cloud Capital team. Rather than running on a fixed calendar schedule alone, these reviews are often triggered by a meaningful event: a new stakeholder joining your Finance or Engineering leadership, a significant shift in your business trajectory, or a major infrastructure change on the horizon. The goal is to step back from the day-to-day, take stock of where you’ve been, look ahead at where you’re going, and make sure every person in the room is getting full value from Cloud Capital.

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When a review is triggered

Business reviews are available to all commitment customers and are scheduled at least quarterly. Beyond the regular cadence, a review can be called any time there’s a reason to get the right people in the room together. Common triggers include:
  • New stakeholder joining — a new CFO, VP Engineering, or Finance Director who needs to understand the platform and the value Cloud Capital is delivering
  • Business inflection point — rapid customer growth, a new product line launching, a major cloud architecture change, or a significant reduction in workload
  • Upcoming commitment decisions — pre-existing Reserved Instances or Savings Plans approaching renewal that need a joint decision on whether to renew, restructure, or let expire
  • Forecast divergence — actuals tracking materially different from the plan, warranting a deeper look before the next commitment step

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What gets covered

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Performance since last review

The session opens with a look back — how has the business performed since your last review? This covers your savings realised, Effective Savings Rate (ESR), commitment utilisation, and how your forecast tracked against actuals. The intent is an honest read of the numbers before looking forward.

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Forecast and business update

With the recent past covered, the conversation moves to your business: what’s changed, what’s coming, and how that feeds into the forecast. Planned growth, new customers, anticipated changes in cloud spend, upcoming migrations or deprecations — anything that should be reflected in the model gets surfaced here. The forecast is updated to incorporate the new inputs so the next quarter starts with an accurate view.

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New stakeholder onboarding

If new Finance or Engineering stakeholders are joining the call for the first time, the review includes a platform walkthrough tailored to their role. Finance stakeholders are oriented around the Forecast, savings reporting, and billing. Engineering stakeholders are walked through Cost Layers, initiatives, and the commitment performance view. The aim is to ensure every stakeholder knows which parts of the platform are relevant to their work and how to use them.

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Finding more value

Business reviews are also an opportunity to identify where Cloud Capital can do more. For Forecasting-only customers — if you’re using Cloud Capital purely for forecasting, the review is a natural moment to look at what commitment management could add. Your Cloud Capital team will walk through what the savings potential looks like given your current spend and forecast, and what a path into commitment management would look like for your business. For commitment customers with pre-existing commitments — if you hold Reserved Instances or Savings Plans that pre-date your Cloud Capital engagement, upcoming renewals are a standing agenda item. The review covers whether those commitments are still the right fit, whether utilisation justifies renewal, and how Cloud Capital can take them over or replace them with better-sized coverage going forward. For all customers — expanding platform adoption across your Finance and Engineering teams compounds the value of Cloud Capital over time. The more visibility stakeholders have into the forecast and savings data, the better decisions get made — and the more accurately the forecast reflects what’s actually coming.

Savings Realisation

How to track commitment performance, ESR, and savings in the Cloud Capital app.

Guaranteed Savings Rate

How the GSR is calculated and what it guarantees.

Forecasting Overview

How Cloud Capital models your cloud spend trajectory.

Commitments FAQ

Common questions about risk, billing, and the review process.