You locked in today’s mistakes
Reserved capacity prices what you are running right now. If what you are running right now is oversized, you have just committed to oversized for a year.
The answer
Commitments and cheaper providers: read the fine print
A discount on waste is still waste. You just prepaid for it.
Migration is not free
A cheaper provider still needs its network, its IAM, its monitoring, and its incident playbooks rebuilt. The bill drops; the operations work does not.
What GIIP FDE Ops does instead
Right-size first, commit second. FDE Ops continuously tunes what you actually run — and if a migration genuinely pays off, it is the one doing the provisioning, the cutover, and the operation afterward.