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Show HN: Kaytu – Optimizing cloud costs using actual usage data
Reduce your cloud costs - SREs/DevOps/Cloud Engineers
Hi community!
We are Kaytu (“Kay-two,” named after the K2 mountain), and we've developed an open-source tool for engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams to reduce cloud costs.
Cloud inflation (“cloud-flation”) is real—AWS EC2 costs are up 23% (4-5x global inflation average [1]), and 30% of the capacity that is paid for is simply wasted ([2]).
The best way to improve cloud utilization is by simplifying the process so engineers can spot inefficiencies and suggest changes. We built a simple open-source CLI tool that recommends a cost-optimal workload based on actual usage data from observability tools. Check it out at https://github.com/kaytu-io/kaytu https://github.com/kaytu-io/kaytu
Currently, we support AWS EC2 On-Demand Servers & EBS Storage using observability data from CloudWatch to determine utilization. You can optimize EC2 Servers based on CPU, Network, Memory, and Storage. We're expanding support to include OS License, GPU metrics, RDS, and Prometheus integration, and we plan to add more AWS services like EKS and OpenSearch, as well as Azure.
This is more than just a utility—we want to provide a no-nonsense platform that makes it ridiculously easy for engineers to build cost-effective apps on the cloud by optimizing workload configurations and customizing to scenarios.
Open Core: Inspired by Sid Sijbrandij and GitLab, we've open-sourced our CLI and are actively working on the server side. Our tooling will always remain straightforward and support open-source tools for free.
We made it as simple as possible to try out - it’s one command, no sign-up needed, no SaaS platform to share your credentials.
We would love you to try it out and give us your feedback! If there are bugs, we would greatly appreciate it if you reported them on GitHub.
Cheers,
The Kaytu Team
(Anil, Arta, Mahan, and Saleh)
References:
[1]Tangoe IT Trends Savings Recommendations and Liftr Insights data Cloud Pricing
[2] Flexera State of Cloud Report - Multiple reports spanning 2017-2023
- swozey 2y agoThis looks really cool, definitely going to check it out. I'm very familiar with infracost and this seems to fill out that general idea of a cost analysis tool even more. Great work thanks for posting
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- deadbunny 2y agoWhat is the server component? Why is there a server component? What data does this send to the server?
- salehkhzf 2y agoHi deadbunny, I'm Saleh, co-author of the CLI tool. the reason we have the server component is that there are over +1M possible combinations for instance types which we recommend from. we're trying to find a efficient way to release this.
- pixiemaster 2y ago[flagged]
- acx1729 2y agoI appreciate the skepticism, however :) We will release the open source server-side - promise :) With three developers and the lookup involving 1M+ possible entries, we are trying to find an effective method.
- nusl 2y agoIt’s a valid question. Trusting your business resources to a tool is not a decision you make lightly.
- deadbunny 2y agoNo one's paid me, seems like a neat tool. I just prefer to know what data is being sent to servers I don't control.
- acx1729 2y agoHi, Deadbunny. The server component is being open-sourced, and we will release it in 3 weeks. https://github.com/kaytu-io/kaytu/blob/main/pkg/api/wastage/ec2_instance.go https://github.com/kaytu-io/kaytu/blob/main/pkg/api/wastage/... has the data (it's just sizing info). It's the sizing metadata that is being sent.
- nathan_jr 2y agoIt would be nice to support a completely offline option where we can provide this metadata to disconnected environments. Perhaps by cloning a repo of metadata or otherwise.
- esafak 2y agoHow do you compare against Vantage, Dashdive, Infracost, Usage, etc.?
- dddw 2y agoCool, Any chance on GCP integration?
- acx1729 2y agohi dddw, we would love to. We are looking for someone who has $100K+ spend monthly on VMs and BigQuery on GCP. If you have or know someone, we can bang this out quickly.
- dddw 2y agoNot in that ballpark, but I can ask around.
- acx1729 2y agoHi dddw, sure. Thank you. It helps with work prioritization. anilc [at] kaytu.io is my email. If you can shoot me a note with some details on the workload (number of VMs, monthly spend), I'd be happy to add it to the backlog.
- primax 2y agoGCPs partner team is mostly useless but they should at least be able to do that for you
- keyworkorange 2y agoAlways looking to conserve cloud spend, I'll give this a shot. Heads up- there's an error on your landing page's Calendly link. "This Calendly URL is not valid."
- enggman 2y agoThis looks interesting. Any plan to have Azure support?