How Pump works

How Does Pump Work?

We are a licensed AWS & GCP reseller. Both AWS and GCP incentivize long-term commitments with high discounts. Our AWS page can be found here.

AWS benefits from the phenomenon of consolidated billing, where they receive one bill from us rather than hundreds of smaller bills. Similarly, GCP provides committed use contracts and sustained usage discounts, helping businesses optimize cloud costs while ensuring predictable spending. By consolidating GCP billing, we simplify account management and unlock additional cost efficiencies for our customers.

How can Pump Help me Save?

Pump primarily saves through 4 major mechanisms

1. Group Buying By consolidating a high volume of cloud spend under our billing umbrella, we unlock volume discounts that wouldn’t be available to individual accounts. Since AWS receives a single consolidated bill from us, we can pass savings on to our customers across services like S3, EC2, EBS, DynamoDB, and more. The exact savings depend on your usage type and the AWS/Pump organization you belong to. You can track your group buying savings directly on the Group Buying tab in the Pump Dashboard.

2. Automated Cost Optimization Our intelligent model continuously scans your cloud usage and optimizes costs by purchasing Reserved Instances (RIs) and Savings Plans (SPs) on your behalf. Depending on your infrastructure needs, we strategically commit to 1 or 3 year RIs or SPs. We optimize for a wide range of AWS services, including EC2, RDS, Redshift, OpenSearch, ElastiCache, and MemoryDB.

3. Waterfall Coverage If an RI or SP isn’t fully utilized for one customer, we can help apply it to another, ensuring no commitments go to waste. This means customers with unused RIs or SPs can transfer their cost benefits to other members within a Pump organization, lowering costs for all involved.

4. Pump Marketplace If you’ve previously committed to an EC2 Reserved Instance - either independently or within another organization - you can register as an AWS reseller through Pump. We facilitate the sale of these instances based on specific parameters, allowing you to recover costs and optimize cloud spending.

How Much Can We Save?

Depending on your instance type, commitment length, region, and infrastructure usage, we can save you up to 72%. The majority of our customers will receive savings between 20-40% off their bill, all for free.