How Pump Save Works

Pump Save

Pump Save reduces your cloud spend across AWS, GCP, and Azure. It combines automated commitment purchasing with infrastructure-level recommendations to capture savings at multiple layers of your cloud bill.

All savings mechanisms work together. They target different types of waste and complement each other rather than competing.

How Pump Save reduces your costs

Pump Save works across three areas:

1. Save > Commitments (AWS) provides a full commitment lifecycle for AWS accounts: usage analysis, purchase execution, utilization and coverage tracking, forward planning, and renewal management. Our account team works with you to determine how purchases are reviewed and executed.

2. Save > Commitments (GCP, Azure) generates commitment recommendations based on your usage patterns. You review each recommendation and decide whether to proceed.

3. Save > Infrastructure (AWS) analyzes your running AWS resources and identifies idle, oversized, or underutilized infrastructure. You review each recommendation and apply changes yourself using the provided commands. No infrastructure changes are made automatically.

All commitments are purchased in your own cloud account. Pump does not pool commitments across customers.

Both are available today. Two additional mechanisms are coming soon:

Mechanism	What it does	Status
Save > Commitments	Full commitment lifecycle: analysis, purchasing, tracking, renewal management	Available (AWS)
Save > Commitments	Generates commitment recommendations for review and approval	Available (GCP, Azure)
Save > Infrastructure	Identifies idle/oversized resources with actionable resize, modernization, and termination commands	Available (AWS)
Kubernetes Auto-Scaling	Optimizes pod CPU and memory sizing, recalibrates horizontal scaling	Coming soon
Spot Autoscaling	Automated spot instance management for fault-tolerant workloads	Coming soon

How savings are calculated

Your savings dashboard shows a single number representing how much Pump has saved you. This includes all savings attributed to Pump across active mechanisms, displayed as the difference between what you would have paid at on-demand rates and what you actually paid.

Pump's fee (for the Enterprise tier) is billed separately and is not subtracted from the displayed savings number. Your invoice shows usage, savings, and fees as distinct line items.

Commitments belong to you

Every commitment Pump purchases lands in your own cloud account. Pump does not pool commitments across customers. If you leave Pump, your existing commitments remain in your account and active until their expiration date.

Getting started

To start saving, connect your cloud account and run a savings estimate. No billing commitment is required to see your estimated savings.