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Would love to know a ballpark figure for this acquisition. I mean this tool looks useful to some people I suppose - but the fact remains it's just a slightly mo

by sho 6y ago

Would love to know a ballpark figure for this acquisition. I mean this tool looks useful to some people I suppose - but the fact remains it's just a slightly more usable list of EC2 properties and costs. How much can it really be worth? Not trying to sound snarky or look down on anything here. I'm genuinely curious. Cool tool. It's worth money!?

encoderer 6y ago
Heck yeah it can be worth a lot in SEO value and reaching an audience of people looking at EC2 prices. Total guess, but having some experience with transactions like this: $5-10k. Making a mental note to track the SEO impact of the redirect to a subdomain here.
Aeolun 6y ago
It’s worth enough to me to hope they don’t ruin it. I was using it every time I needed to check the info on some instance.
rdhatt 6y ago
> it's just a slightly more usable list of EC2 properties and costs For anyone who has to constantly (re)evalaute EC2 instances, this is a huge understatement. Now, I just looked at AWS EC2 pricing page and it looks way better than what I remember using in 2018. Back then, for a given instance family, the specs and prices were on separate tables, making it maddening to compare. And forget comparing across instance families. instances.vantage.sh nee ec2instances.info made that so simple. Even the AWS ProServe employees that I worked with preferred it. So AWS may have closed the gap but ec2instances.info is still superior since it offers advanced features such as "sorting" and "searching". The "Compare Selected" is super handy as well. The biggest plus for Vantage is that ec2instances.info wired in to my fingers, I suspect that's true for a lot of AWS devs. By buying this site, they get a lot of eyeballs for their product. And frankly, it does make sense - Vantage is trying to selling you a better AWS console, this is a better pricing page, so it fits. The original dev gets some cash for a side project that was probably a huge headache to deal with. Win win for both parties.

by sho 6y ago

encoderer 6y ago

Heck yeah it can be worth a lot in SEO value and reaching an audience of people looking at EC2 prices. Total guess, but having some experience with transactions like this: $5-10k. Making a mental note to track the SEO impact of the redirect to a subdomain here.

Aeolun 6y ago

It’s worth enough to me to hope they don’t ruin it. I was using it every time I needed to check the info on some instance.

rdhatt 6y ago

> it's just a slightly more usable list of EC2 properties and costs For anyone who has to constantly (re)evalaute EC2 instances, this is a huge understatement. Now, I just looked at AWS EC2 pricing page and it looks way better than what I remember using in 2018. Back then, for a given instance family, the specs and prices were on separate tables, making it maddening to compare. And forget comparing across instance families. instances.vantage.sh nee ec2instances.info made that so simple. Even the AWS ProServe employees that I worked with preferred it. So AWS may have closed the gap but ec2instances.info is still superior since it offers advanced features such as "sorting" and "searching". The "Compare Selected" is super handy as well. The biggest plus for Vantage is that ec2instances.info wired in to my fingers, I suspect that's true for a lot of AWS devs. By buying this site, they get a lot of eyeballs for their product. And frankly, it does make sense - Vantage is trying to selling you a better AWS console, this is a better pricing page, so it fits. The original dev gets some cash for a side project that was probably a huge headache to deal with. Win win for both parties.