StratusBen

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by StratusBen 4y ago
There are a number of providers in this space. You're correct that for this specific feature, the main difference is the cost to the customer. Usage publicly states that they charge 20% of the savings found. We've heard that other
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by StratusBen 4y ago
If you enjoy problems like this, we're hiring engineers ;) https://www.vantage.sh/careers/
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by StratusBen 4y ago
Nope! We don't touch your infrastructure at all for this. Autopilot only is managing financial commitments on your behalf. Reserved Instances (and Savings Plans) sit alongside your infrastructure but do not touch it and there is no cha
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by StratusBen 4y ago
We wrote up some documentation on this and I'm linked directly to the "How Does Autopilot work?" section for you: https://docs.vantage.sh/autopilot/#how-does-autopilot-work
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Show HN: Vantage Autopilot – Save on AWS EC2 Costs(vantage.sh)
61 points by StratusBen 4y ago|48 comments
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Show HN: See AWS Costs for Each Resource
8 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) https://www.vantage.sh Vantage is a cloud cost platform that gives engineering and finance teams the ability to get visibility on and optimize
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by StratusBen 4y ago
Not only is it that high it's growing 37% year-over-year! Really insane to see a business this large growing that quickly. Still very much the early days of cloud infrastructure adoption.
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Kubernetes cost reporting: see costs by namespace, label or service(vantage.sh)
1 points by StratusBen 4y ago|0 comments
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by StratusBen 5y ago
Thanks for that feedback. I've mentioned this publicly before on HN: we are happy to offer anyone SAML SSO even if you fit into our Pro/Business tiers. We have configured "Enterprise" tiers for folks below $200/mont
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by StratusBen 5y ago
We aren't a company that uses Lambda at scale but we have exposure to a few thousand AWS customers' cloud costs and I definitely say that the customers who are all-in using Lambda are saving a lot of money relative to their contai
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by StratusBen 5y 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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Save 10%+ on RDS costs by switching to AWS Graviton(vantage.sh)
1 points by StratusBen 5y ago|0 comments
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Get AWS/GCP costs posted directly to Microsoft Teams(vantage.sh)
1 points by StratusBen 5y ago|0 comments
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Vantage adds Google Cloud support(vantage.sh)
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by StratusBen 5y ago
We wrote a blog post comparing RDS vs PlanetScale from a pricing perspective back in January...kudos to PlanetScale on responding to feedback on that so quickly. HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29910
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by StratusBen 5y ago
We are in process of updating the documentation because you're right that it needs more work. For the record, if you're doing everything on your own via Cost Explorer, Storage Lens and processing CUR you may be set. From what we h
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by StratusBen 5y ago
Disclosure: I'm Co-Founder and CEO of a cloud cost company named https://www.vantage.sh/ - I also used to be on the product management team at AWS and DigitalOcean. I'm not intentionally trying to shill but this i
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by StratusBen 5y ago
On this topic, it's always surprising to me how few people even seem to know about different storage classes on S3...or even intelligent tiering (which I know carries a cost to it, but allows AWS to manage some of this on your behalf w
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by StratusBen 5y ago
+1 for Arctype - I'm a happy user :)
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Profiling 25,000 S3 Buckets: The Billion Dollar Opportunity for Cloudflare R2(vantage.sh)
2 points by StratusBen 5y ago|1 comments
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by StratusBen 5y ago
Completely agree. Relevant market sizing analysis we did on this you might find interesting: https://www.vantage.sh/blog/the-opportunity-for-cloudflare-r...
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by StratusBen 5y ago
[Disclaimer: I'm Co-Founder and CEO of https://www.vantage.sh - a cloud cost platform] On this topic as its relevant, at Vantage we launched an automated cost recommendation that keeps an eye on egress out of Cloudfront and
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by StratusBen 5y ago
Hey there - I'm the author of the post. It's a really good call out and something we're thinking about as a future post in the series. When we took a look at RDS costs, the vast majority of customers are using "raw"
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AWS Savings Plan Interactive Modeling Tool(vantage.sh)
2 points by StratusBen 5y ago|0 comments
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AWS Savings Plans vs. Reserved Instances(vantage.sh)
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Guide: What Is an AWS Savings Plan?(vantage.sh)
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Farewell, EC2-Other(vantage.sh)
4 points by StratusBen 5y ago|1 comments
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by StratusBen 5y ago
Disclosure - I'm Co-Founder and CEO of https://vantage.sh/ Hopefully the downvote brigade doesn't come after me as I'm truly just trying to share this as I think it'd be helpful in the context of this po
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by StratusBen 5y ago
Not to mention AWS only updates billing data 2-4 times per day. So even if you do have this enabled, on an accrued cost basis you're going to have to wait 6-8 hours to know about it from Cost Explorer.

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