Flexible commitments

AWS commitment discounts (Reserved Instances and Savings Plans) usually mean a choice between two bad options: pay list price, or lock yourself in for one to three years. Wring offers a third way, in partnership with Archera: insured commitments with a 30-day or 1-year guarantee. You get the commitment discount; the multi-year utilization risk is carried by the insurance, not by you.

You'll find them in your Wring dashboard under Flexible commitments — no separate account, no additional tool to learn.

How it works

1. Connect the read-only stack. Like every Wring capability, this starts with a separate opt-in CloudFormation stack: the Wring Flexible Commitments level in the setup wizard installs a read-only role so plan recommendations can be computed from your real usage.
2. Compare your options. For each connected account you see the recommended plans side by side — commitment amount, estimated monthly savings, and both guarantee terms — so you can judge what your workload supports before anything binds.
3. Book when it fits. Booking is restricted to account owners, and is currently being opened up account by account — the booking dialog tells you whether it's already available for yours (if you don't want to wait, talk to us). Only at that moment does Wring ask you to install the separate write stack that allows the purchase — write access is granted just-in-time, never up front.
4. Savings show up automatically. Once a commitment is active, its savings feed into your savings summary like any implemented recommendation, so the effect stays measurable.

Built-in safeguards

• Read and write are separate roles. Browsing recommendations never requires write access; you can evaluate the feature with the read-only stack alone and remove it anytime.
• No double purchases. Every booking is idempotent and re-validates the plan immediately before purchase — if a plan has changed or disappeared, the booking stops instead of buying something you didn't see.
• Nothing books itself. There is no autopilot: every commitment is an explicit booking by an account owner, confirmed with the exact monthly amount on screen.

30-day or 1-year?

Both terms carry the same insurance idea — the guarantee defines the earliest moment you can exit, not a multi-year promise. A 30-day guarantee keeps commitments useful where a 1–3 year promise would be reckless: spiky products, scaling startups, infrastructure in flux. A 1-year guarantee suits a steady baseline you're confident about. The dashboard shows the concrete numbers for both terms side by side, so the trade-off is always your real one — and if you're unsure what your usage pattern supports, ask [email protected]: we can look at your synced usage together before you commit to anything.