Strategic Blue

cloud options is a financial service offered by strategic blue, the cloud broker-dealer. cloud options enables users to pay for their cloud usage on financial terms that suit their particular circumstances. we remove the friction between how cloud providers want to be paid and what suits the user. cloud options lets companies introduce us into the payment chain between themselves and one or more cloud providers, so that we fit in with how each cloud provider prefers to be paid. we then agree a convenient way for the customer to pay us. once in the billing chain, cloud options enables customers to prebook some of their future cloud usage at a fixed price. this improves the accuracy of cloud budgets and allows users to lock-in future prices that are significantly lower than today's price. cloud options is a valuable service to the cloud providers too, as we prepurchase long-term blocks of usage, which helps with capacity planning.