📔General FAQ
How is Pump free?
Pump monetizes through a small percentage from the volume discounts of the collective large spend achieved. 100% of our revenue comes from AWS. We believe saving costs should not be a cost in itself for our customers.
How does the group buying work?
Larger companies negotiate direct deals & discounts with cloud providers that startups don't have access to. But with consolidated billing, we do! And beyond the volume based discounts that we've negotiated, our AI constantly plans, purchases and sells the most effective AWS commitments on your behalf. As your environments grow, shrink or have inevitable spikes, Pump dynamically adapts.
What AWS services do you arbitrage the cost for?
The list of AWS services that Pump covers is in here. We are the only company that covers such an extensive list of AWS services.
What permissions am I handing off?
Our permissions are at the billing layer only. We ask you to join our AWS organization and use only IAM roles and permissions to perform all the required cost optimizations and AWS APIs to enable these savings.
We cannot start or stop an instance, and only operate on the billing layer.
Do I risk our actual AWS environment because of Pump?
Pump would have ZERO ability to modify your environment. There is zero-touch to your infrastructure; thus, there is no chance for any server downtime or interruptions to your developer workflows!
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