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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 excee

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?

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?