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Hi everyone, I'm Co-Founder and CEO of Vantage We've heard consistently from existing users that they want visibility of AWS costs directly where their teams d

Hi everyone, I'm Co-Founder and CEO of Vantage We've heard consistently from existing users that they want visibility of AWS costs directly where their teams do work: which tends to be in Slack for the most part. This integration represents us dipping our toes into an integration with Slack. Currently you can get either daily, weekly or monthly cost reports posted to Slack with a breakdown of each individual AWS service. In the future, we're looking to integrate Slack slash commands in for querying information about your AWS account as well as comparing information found on http://ec2instances.info/ http://ec2instances.info/ which we acquired earlier this year. We've also got some things cooking around automated alerts and cost anomaly detections. This is a pretty straight-forward launch but happy to answer any questions :)

picardo 5y ago
What would you say is the advantage of Vantage over AWS's Billing Dashboard?[1] I can configure it to send me daily reports and notifications if the costs exceed my daily threshold already. Why do I need Vantage? ---- [1] https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing
- itisit 5y ago
  If I may add on, what does Vantage give me above and beyond AWS Billing Dashboard and AWS Cost Explorer?
- StratusBen 5y ago
  Good question. There are a number of things already at the moment and the list keeps growing: - Vantage gives you per-resource costs for every AWS resource broken down by category and subcategory without the need for you to tag anything. This feature is named Advanced Analytics and allows you to see costs for all AWS resources like Lambda Functions, SQS Queues, SNS Topics, S3 Buckets, etc. You can see more here: https://www.vantage.sh/features/advanced-analytics https://www.vantage.sh/features/advanced-analytics - Vantage has Kubernetes service level cost support. We can show you the cost of each individual K8S service by looking at lifecycle events and cross-referencing with underlying EC2 costs. You can see more here: https://www.vantage.sh/features/kubernetes https://www.vantage.sh/features/kubernetes - Cost Recommendations: Vantage will give you not only ways to optimize your costs within the confines of your AWS account but also make third party recommendations in the best interest of your business....AWS will never do this. Here's an example of our Cloudflare cost recommendation: https://www.vantage.sh/blog/cloudflare-specific-cost-recommendations-for-amazon-cloudfront-and-amazon-s3-egress https://www.vantage.sh/blog/cloudflare-specific-cost-recomme... - Ease of use. We've heard consistent customer feedback that most people don't enjoy using AWS billing related tools, APIs or even raw data from Cost and Usage Reports as its hard to use and unintuitive. We have focused really hard on developer experience and ease of use. Vantage has also only been generally available since January of this year...we have a lot more planned for the future and this list will grow.
  - fragmede 5y ago
    That second point is huge! What support do you have for pass thru cost attribution in the pipeline past k8s?
liorben-david 5y ago
Did you use NGrok or some kind of live test environment to develop the slack app or use their new websockets functionality? Also where are you hosting your Slack app?
Abishek_Muthian 5y ago
Congratulations on the launch! I'm not using Slack anymore but I presume this is very useful to those who do. But since you're addressing problems with AWS billing, You might be interested in the need-gap in estimating the AWS bill after free 12 months[1] posted on my problem validation platform. [1] https://needgap.com/problems/277-what-will-be-my-aws-bill-after-free-12-months-calculator-billing https://needgap.com/problems/277-what-will-be-my-aws-bill-af...

picardo 5y ago

What would you say is the advantage of Vantage over AWS's Billing Dashboard?[1] I can configure it to send me daily reports and notifications if the costs exceed my daily threshold already. Why do I need Vantage? ---- [1] https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing

itisit 5y ago
If I may add on, what does Vantage give me above and beyond AWS Billing Dashboard and AWS Cost Explorer?
StratusBen 5y ago
Good question. There are a number of things already at the moment and the list keeps growing: - Vantage gives you per-resource costs for every AWS resource broken down by category and subcategory without the need for you to tag anything. This feature is named Advanced Analytics and allows you to see costs for all AWS resources like Lambda Functions, SQS Queues, SNS Topics, S3 Buckets, etc. You can see more here: https://www.vantage.sh/features/advanced-analytics https://www.vantage.sh/features/advanced-analytics - Vantage has Kubernetes service level cost support. We can show you the cost of each individual K8S service by looking at lifecycle events and cross-referencing with underlying EC2 costs. You can see more here: https://www.vantage.sh/features/kubernetes https://www.vantage.sh/features/kubernetes - Cost Recommendations: Vantage will give you not only ways to optimize your costs within the confines of your AWS account but also make third party recommendations in the best interest of your business....AWS will never do this. Here's an example of our Cloudflare cost recommendation: https://www.vantage.sh/blog/cloudflare-specific-cost-recommendations-for-amazon-cloudfront-and-amazon-s3-egress https://www.vantage.sh/blog/cloudflare-specific-cost-recomme... - Ease of use. We've heard consistent customer feedback that most people don't enjoy using AWS billing related tools, APIs or even raw data from Cost and Usage Reports as its hard to use and unintuitive. We have focused really hard on developer experience and ease of use. Vantage has also only been generally available since January of this year...we have a lot more planned for the future and this list will grow.
- fragmede 5y ago
  That second point is huge! What support do you have for pass thru cost attribution in the pipeline past k8s?

liorben-david 5y ago

Did you use NGrok or some kind of live test environment to develop the slack app or use their new websockets functionality? Also where are you hosting your Slack app?

Abishek_Muthian 5y ago

Congratulations on the launch! I'm not using Slack anymore but I presume this is very useful to those who do. But since you're addressing problems with AWS billing, You might be interested in the need-gap in estimating the AWS bill after free 12 months[1] posted on my problem validation platform. [1] https://needgap.com/problems/277-what-will-be-my-aws-bill-after-free-12-months-calculator-billing https://needgap.com/problems/277-what-will-be-my-aws-bill-af...