Cloud Commitments Without the Lock-In with Archera's Aran Khanna

About this episode

Scott talks with Aran Khanna about a new category of cloud financial tooling and the future of cloud purchasing.

Scott talks with Aran Khanna, co-founder and CEO of Archera, about a new category of cloud financial tooling: "Insured Commitments." Instead of locking into 1- or 3-year reserved instance contracts and hoping your usage matches, Archera offers commitments as short as 30 days. They get into the economics of cloud purchasing, how AI workloads are changing capacity planning, and what FinOps looks like in 2026.

People in this episode

Host: Scott Hanselman

Guest: Aran Khanna

Topics covered

• cloud financial tooling
• Insured Commitments
• cloud purchasing
• AI workloads
• capacity planning
• FinOps

Keywords

• cloud commitments
• reserved instance contracts
• 30 days
• economics
• FinOps
• AI workloads
• capacity planning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Archera

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