StratusBen

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by StratusBen 4y ago
Everyone seems to be talking about the YoY percentage growth decline for AWS being at "only" 20%. Seemingly what's happening is just optimization en masse which is temporarily impacting growth on a YoY basis. There are other
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by StratusBen 4y ago
...actually the team openly admitted to copying the site directly after we called them out publicly. Here is the direct message of them apologizing: https://imgur.com/a/OlNJ5U4
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by StratusBen 4y ago
1) Generally ignore, it doesn't matter. If you're prioritizing your customers and they're prioritizing copying you, they'll always be second to you. 2) Despite the above, call them out publicly. A YC company ripped us of
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by StratusBen 4y ago
As someone who has spent the greater part of the last 3 years working on AWS UX or billing related things....this hits incredibly too close to home. Also, for anyone waking up in the middle of the night on billing alert emails, this is why
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by StratusBen 4y ago
Hi HN, I’m cofounder of https://www.vantage.sh/ - I previously worked at both AWS and DigitalOcean. Cloud costs are top of mind for a lot of companies these days. If you want to save money on RDS, Elasticache, Redshift, and
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Show HN: Save Money on RDS, Elasticache, Redshift with Vantage Autopilot(vantage.sh)
4 points by StratusBen 4y ago|1 comments
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by StratusBen 4y ago
Vantage | Software Engineers (Senior & Staff) | Full-time | NYC & Remote (US) https://www.vantage.sh/ Vantage is a cloud cost platform that gives engineering and finance teams the ability to get visibility on and op
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by StratusBen 4y ago
Continuing to work on https://www.vantage.sh/ We help individuals and companies get visibility on and optimize their cloud infrastructure costs. Currently support AWS, Datadog, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks and Fastly.
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by StratusBen 4y ago
Vantage | Software Engineers (Senior & Staff) | Full-time | NYC & Remote (US) www.vantage.sh Vantage is a cloud cost platform that gives engineering and finance teams the ability to get visibility on and optimize their cloud infrast
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Datadog Cost Optimization Tips(vantage.sh)
6 points by StratusBen 4y ago|0 comments
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by StratusBen 4y ago
Vantage | Software Engineers (Senior & Staff) | Full-time | NYC & Remote (US) www.vantage.sh Vantage is a cloud cost platform that gives engineering and finance teams the ability to get visibility on and optimize their cloud infrast
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One Million Database Connections(planetscale.com)
119 points by StratusBen 4y ago|50 comments
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by StratusBen 4y ago
"AWS segment sales increased 27% year-over-year to $20.5 billion, or increased 28% excluding changes in foreign exchange rates." Point 1: AWS is over $80B annualized now. Amazing. Growing at 27% is still remarkable at that scale.
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by StratusBen 4y ago
It's community supported! We just pay the bills and maintain hosting it :) Do you mind opening an issue on the repo here? https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info Thank you for the report!
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by StratusBen 4y ago
As someone who spends entirely too much time thinking about cloud infrastructure costs ( I'm co-founder of https://www.vantage.sh/ which maintains https://ec2instances.info/ ) I just want to recognize
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Vantage Cloud Cost Report Q3 2022(vantage.sh)
8 points by StratusBen 4y ago|1 comments
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Vantage Launches Cost Anomaly Alerts for AWS, GCP, Snowflake and More(vantage.sh)
5 points by StratusBen 4y ago|0 comments
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by StratusBen 4y ago
Vantage | Software Engineers (Senior & Staff) | Full-time | NYC & Remote (US) www.vantage.sh Vantage is a cloud cost platform that gives engineering and finance teams the ability to get visibility on and optimize their cloud infrast
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by StratusBen 4y ago
Of all design systems I'd be curious about, the AWS console may be the last one I'd choose to mimic/leverage.
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PlanetScale now displays system status directly in your dashboard(planetscale.com)
13 points by StratusBen 4y ago|0 comments
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by StratusBen 4y ago
:wave: Thanks for saying that. When we acquired the site over a year ago I publicly stated priority #1 was "not to screw it up" linked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26080769 I feel super strongly abou
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by StratusBen 4y ago
Hi HN, Last year we acquired https://ec2instances.info and posted on HN soliciting feedback on the site. Today, I’m happy to show Detail Pages, the first new feature we have worked with the community to add. On Detail Pages, you
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Show HN: Ec2instances.info Launches Detail Pages for EC2 and RDS(instances.vantage.sh)
13 points by StratusBen 4y ago|2 comments
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by StratusBen 4y ago
Vantage | Software Engineers (Senior & Staff) | Full-time | NYC & Remote (US) www.vantage.sh Vantage is a cloud cost platform that gives engineering and finance teams the ability to get visibility on and optimize their cloud infrast
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by StratusBen 4y ago
Vantage | Software Engineers (Senior & Staff) | Full-time | NYC & Remote (US) www.vantage.sh Vantage is a cloud cost platform that gives engineering and finance teams the ability to get visibility on and optimize their cloud infrast
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by StratusBen 4y ago
Nope - it's something created by AWS: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ri-marke...
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by StratusBen 4y ago
I believe Autopilot is competitive with Spot's "Eco" product. From what we've heard, Spot by NetApp charges somewhere between 20% and 30% of the savings found. Vantage Autopilot charges 5% of the savings found. We ultima
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by StratusBen 4y ago
Can you please email support [at] vantage [dot] sh? We'll see what could have happened here and will definitely refund. Typically this should only happen if you click "activate" on the free trial flow.
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by StratusBen 4y ago
Ultimately we are just leveraging the primitives provided by AWS to make this happen. Reserved Instances and Savings Plans help AWS (which is why they offer a discount for them) as they're able to more effectively forecast and negotiat
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by StratusBen 4y ago
The honest answer is that there is a risk of being over-committed with reserved instances and savings plans regardless of whether you purchase them yourselves or rely on something like Autopilot to do it. We target RIs specifically because

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