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[Disclosure] I'm Co-Founder and CEO of http://vantage.sh/ http://vantage.sh/, a cloud cost platform for AWS. Previously I was a product manager at AWS and Digit
by StratusBen 5y ago
[Disclosure] I'm Co-Founder and CEO of http://vantage.sh/ http://vantage.sh/, a cloud cost platform for AWS. Previously I was a product manager at AWS and DigitalOcean.
Since the author and so many people are commenting about AWS costs (and in particular, choosing cheaper EC2 instances and EBS volumes) I thought I'd mention that Vantage has recommendations that look to tell you for these exact things so you don't get tripped up / spend more than you have to.
If you have "antiquated" EC2 instances or EBS volumes, Vantage will give you a recommendation for which instance to switch to and how much money you'll save.
The first $2,500/month in AWS costs are also tracked for free so people get a lot of value out of the free tier and can save significant parts of their bills when developing on AWS.
- 7sidedmarble 5y agoRespect that you are all about that grindset for your product in this thread, but it's also a little insane that you need a third party tool to make sense of what's going on in AWS. I'm a bit of a GCP fan, and while it's billing is also arcane, it think it is just a little bit easier to understand and better laid out. For bread and butter stuff like regular VPSs though, AWS is often a little cheaper. But GCPs other cloud offerings are occasionally very respectably priced.
- swyx 5y agoevery $X00 billion dollar business is big enough that third party tools will always be desired because the default experience wont be good enough for some part of the market. question is whether or not that part is big enough to warrant its own venture scale business, as with Vantage :)
- smoldesu 5y agoI'd frankly just prefer to use a VPS. The fact that I need to have a payment stack alongside my technology one is just ridiculous to me.