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AWS is the most flexible enterprise cloud commercial in market and also the most expensive to negotiate badly. The combination of committed-spend pricing, opaque list rates, and rapid AI service rollout means most enterprises overpay by 15 to 30 percent on their AWS run rate without realizing it. This hub is the buyer side response.

Where the common advice on AWS commit sizing is wrong

The standard AWS account team pitch is that a five year EDP at the strategic forecast unlocks the deepest discount tier and signals long term commitment. We disagree. In roughly seven out of ten EDP negotiations we have run, the strategic forecast commit over committed against trailing draw by 22 to 38 percent and tied up dollars that could have been deployed against discrete Savings Plans and Reserved Instances. The buyer side move is to default to three years on commit, size on trailing twelve month draw plus a defensible 8 to 14 percent growth band, negotiate carry forward rights explicitly, and only step to five years when workload trajectory is unusually visible.

Where to start

If you have an EDP renewal in the next twelve months, begin with the EDP Negotiation Playbook and the Commitment Calculator. If you are evaluating a first EDP, the 2026 enterprise playbook covers the structure decisions that matter most at signing. If you are already in EDP and want to reduce run rate, the Vendor Management playbook covers the ongoing optimization that does not require contract renegotiation.

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