United States luxury hospitality group running three flagship digital brands on Amazon Web Services. Redress reframed the broader AWS Enterprise Discount Program renewal cycle around the actual customer Reserved Instance, Savings Plans, and competitive framework. Fifteen percent against the broader AWS framework.
Kings Hospitality cut landed AWS spend by 15 percent across the three year EDP term by right sizing the commit, reshaping the ramp, and layering Reserved Instances against a benchmarked competitive anchor.
Three levers combined. The commit was right sized against twelve months of real consumption, not aspirational growth. The ramp reshaped to back load year two and year three. Reserved Instances and Savings Plans layered against the steady state base. The cycle opened twelve weeks before the EDP anniversary.
AWS publishes the program structure on the AWS Enterprise Discount Program page. The commit and ramp shape are negotiable. The bulk of buyers leave both unchallenged.
The prior EDP committed 18.6 million dollars across three years on a flat 6.2 per year ramp. Reserved Instance coverage sat at 31 percent. Savings Plan coverage sat at 9 percent. Aggregate landed discount against AWS list ran 12 percent across the term.
Twelve months of actual consumption ran at 4.9 million dollars per year against a 6.2 million dollar commit. The overhang was 21 percent. Hospitality demand drove a seasonal swing of plus or minus 18 percent across the calendar, with growth concentrated in the back half of the new term.
The new EDP committed 15.2 million dollars across three years against a 60 to 20 to 20 ramp. Year one commit dropped 26 percent. The aggregate commit dropped 18.3 percent against the prior baseline.
EDP commit, before and after
| Term year | Prior commit | New commit | RI / SP coverage | Landed discount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | 6.2m | 9.1m | 58 percent | 15 percent |
| Year 2 | 6.2m | 3.0m | 64 percent | 15 percent |
| Year 3 | 6.2m | 3.1m | 67 percent | 15 percent |
A back loaded ramp pushes commit dollars into years two and three. Growth pays for itself rather than being prepaid. If consumption misses plan in year two or year three, the gap is smaller and the conversation is friendlier.
Reserved Instances and AWS Savings Plans cover the steady state base. EDP commit dollars cover the variable load on top. Stacking the two correctly means the EDP commit only needs to absorb true variability, not the predictable base.
Four levers carried the most weight. None of them are unique to hospitality. Every enterprise AWS buyer can pull them.
It needs to be credible, not enormous. A parity quote for the top three workload groups is enough. The point is to demonstrate genuine optionality, not to threaten exit.
Always. The account team will argue that prior commit anchored growth and that lowering it risks runway. Bring the consumption data to the meeting. Numbers beat narrative.
The standard reseller advice is to commit aggressively up front because the discount tier widens with the commit. We disagree. In roughly 22 out of the 30 AWS EDP renewals we benchmarked in 2024 and 2025, the discount tier difference between a 15 million dollar commit and a 20 million dollar commit was less than two and a half percentage points, while the prepay overhang risk on the larger commit ran above 15 percent. The buyer side move is to right size to twelve months of real consumption, accept a slightly lower headline discount, and recapture the difference through Reserved Instance and Savings Plan layering on the steady state base.
Source: Redress Compliance advisory engagement file, 2024 to 2025.
Cost reconciliation runs monthly against the AWS Cost and Usage Report. The team reviews coverage quarterly and adjusts before drift compounds.
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Three levers combined to deliver 15 percent against AWS list. The EDP commit was right sized to twelve months of real consumption. Reserved Instances and Savings Plans were layered against the steady state base. The commercial discussion was opened twelve weeks before the EDP anniversary.
The prior EDP committed 18.6 million dollars across three years on a flat annual ramp. The new EDP committed 15.2 million dollars across the same term with a 60 to 20 to 20 ramp. The net saving on the commitment was 18.3 percent on commit and 15 percent on landed cost after Reserved Instance and Savings Plan layering.
Four levers moved the dial. A commit right sizing against twelve months of real consumption. A ramp reshape from flat to back loaded. A competitive anchor against Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. A standstill on growth assumptions until the EDP term started.
AWS Cost Explorer and the AWS Cost and Usage Report are reconciled monthly against the EDP commit curve. Reserved Instance and Savings Plan coverage is reviewed quarterly. Drift against commit triggers a workload audit and a credit conversation with the AWS account team.
Three brands ran on AWS at engagement start: HotelsForKings, BarsForKings, and RestaurantsForKings. The estate runs on Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon S3, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB. Personalization workloads use Amazon Personalize. Image workloads use Amazon Rekognition.
The wider Kings Hospitality portfolio has since grown to seven consumer brands, including VillasForKings, YachtsForKings, SkiResortsForKings, and BeachesForKings. Each brand runs on the same shared AWS platform, so every new property guide compounds the consumption baseline behind the EDP commitment.
Twelve weeks before the EDP anniversary. Week one ran the assessment. Week three anchored Reserved Instance and Savings Plan coverage. Week six opened the competitive anchor. Week ten closed the new EDP.
No. Redress is one hundred percent buyer side independent. Redress does not sell or resell AWS. Redress sits on the customer side of the table at every renewal cycle.
Three things. Open the EDP discussion at least twelve weeks before the anniversary. Right size the commit against real consumption, not aspirational growth. Layer Reserved Instances and Savings Plans against the steady state base before any EDP commit conversation.
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Open the Paper →The AWS account team quoted a five percent discount tier on the renewal. We reframed the conversation around right sized commit, Reserved Instance and Savings Plan layering, and parity Azure and Google Cloud quotes. The new EDP landed 15 percent under the prior baseline across the three brands.
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