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Show HN: A hosted MCP for analyzing infra costs
1 points by StratusBen 1y ago|0 comments
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by StratusBen 1y ago
tl;dr We re-wrote the entire codebase that was backing https://ec2instances.info/ - the popular EC2 instance price comparison tool. Its much, much faster. I'm Co-Founder & CEO of Vantage - we're a cloud cost m
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Show HN: Ec2instances.info has been re-written(instances.vantage.sh)
1 points by StratusBen 1y ago|1 comments
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by StratusBen 1y ago
And yet they still have a ~90% gross margin -- honestly not too shabby!
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by StratusBen 1y ago
A few things. The biggest is giving the LLM context. On Vantage we have a primitive called a "Cost Report" that you can think of as being a set of filters. So you can create a cost report for a particular environment (production v
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Show HN: An MCP server for understanding AWS costs
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by StratusBen 2y ago
For those interested in S3 Tables which is referenced in this blog post, we literally just published this overview on what they are and cost considerations of them that people might find interesting: https://www.vantage.sh/b
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by StratusBen 2y ago
Absolutely wild. Just as a community-supported plug here on the billing documentation front, we just launched https://cur.vantage.sh/ which we will never paywall. It's meant to be a free resource for looking up AWS bil
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by StratusBen 2y ago
I'm the author of the blog post and the CEO of https://vantage.sh/ I kind of agree that I don't love the term. That being said it has become the de-facto way that people refer to the space and practice. The FinOps
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Grafana: Why observability needs FinOps, and vice versa(grafana.com)
62 points by StratusBen 2y ago|43 comments
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Show HN: Cur.vantage.sh – AWS Billing Code Lookup Tool
7 points by StratusBen 2y ago|1 comments
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Datadog vs. Grafana: Pricing Comparisons(vantage.sh)
3 points by StratusBen 2y ago|1 comments
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by StratusBen 2y ago
Vantage | NYC / Remote | Full-Time | https://www.vantage.sh Vantage is a cloud cost observability and optimization platform that supports 15+ different infrastructure providers like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Datadog, etc. W
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AWS Savings Plan and Reserved Instance Policy Changes for Resellers(vantage.sh)
1 points by StratusBen 2y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: GitHub Cost Visibility and Optimization
1 points by StratusBen 2y ago|1 comments
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GPT 4-O Mini vs. Claude 3 Haiku vs. Gemini 1.5 Flash: Pricing Considerations(vantage.sh)
2 points by StratusBen 2y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: See Network Flow Costs by Ingesting VPC Flow Logs and Cur
7 points by StratusBen 2y ago|0 comments
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Demystifying and Optimizing AWS Data Transfer Costs(vantage.sh)
2 points by StratusBen 2y ago|0 comments
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Intel vs. AMD vs. Graviton: Amazon EC2 Processor Differences and Distribution(vantage.sh)
3 points by StratusBen 2y ago|0 comments
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Twitter charging $250,000 for inactive handles(twitter.com)
11 points by StratusBen 3y ago|2 comments
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by StratusBen 3y ago
Unfortunately we don't have an option for that route -- but we're happy to help support any paperwork for getting things up and running if you contact me or my team: ben [at] vantage [dot] sh.
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by StratusBen 3y ago
Disclosure: I'm CEO of https://www.vantage.sh/ -- a cloud cost observability platform. I previously worked at both AWS and DigitalOcean. For people looking for how to save money on AWS - I'd [selfishly] recommend
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How AWS Is Using Capacity Blocks to Alleviate the GPU Shortage(vantage.sh)
2 points by StratusBen 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Automated Cloud Cost Reporting via Terraform(docs.vantage.sh)
2 points by StratusBen 3y ago|0 comments
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AWS/Azure/GCP Cloud Cost Report(vantage.sh)
1 points by StratusBen 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: AWS Cost Leaderboard(leaderboard.vantage.sh)
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by StratusBen 3y ago
This is an interesting post...though I'm surprised to see this kind of optimization occur so late stage/as large as Canva. There's quite a few anti-cloud opinions in the comments but for anyone who is hosted on S3 and would l
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Show HN: OpenAI Cost Monitoring
13 points by StratusBen 3y ago|0 comments
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Query Performance Analysis with Insights(planetscale.com)
23 points by StratusBen 3y ago|0 comments
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by StratusBen 4y ago
CEO of Vantage here: You're correct - and we only charge for EC2 savings realized. Additionally we give away all other service recommendations for free: RDS, Elasticache, Redshift, etc. These are your savings and you should realize as

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