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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
+1 on WalterGR's question. Google Cloud recently hiked prices (again), doubling prices for some of its services [1], though Amazon has a better track record of keeping prices steady (or even reducing them) [2]. There are also newer inn
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
I agree with the other commenters that overprovisioning (or underprovisioning) is a concern with the cloud, but the public cloud has long been more secure than on-prem data centers [1], [2], [3]. As for the cost, Reserved Instances can dram
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
Not at the moment. Any suggestions? :-)
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
No. We aren't in violation of any of AWS's terms. The transfer of RIs are done through AWS APIs.
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
Not totally sure what you mean by we are only used by companies who plan on using our service for less than 29 months. Can you elaborate? We sell the RIs to our other users (now in the hundreds) so we don't take a loss. We only take a
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
If we can't find a buyer then yes, we buy them back until we find a buyer. To limit this risk, we only offer buy-back on particular instance families and regions that are most popular (and easy for us to sell to other users). With 100s
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
Actually we aren't loaning any money since we use no-upfront RIs only. We have some customers that spend $10M+ on AWS, so we can work with any size of company.
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
We have something launching soon for RDS! For a customer with an SP, we typically get them boosted to 100% coverage with our Flex RIs. Once the SP expires, we automatically switch the customer over to 100% Flex RI to maximize savings. Flex
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
No conditions. We are fully automated, we have customers saving as little as $10k and some as many as $1M+ per year.
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
Usage does take on all the risk. The good thing about cloud compute is that it's recession-proof -- compute volume isn't something companies can cut.
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
The cloud reseller motion is something we briefly explored but not currently on the roadmap. Our roadmap for the next 2 Quarters is Full Multi Cloud (Azure, GCP, and AWS) support.
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
We have a very strong positive relationship with AWS and meet with them often, both with senior leadership and account managers.
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
If you don't see anything it likely means there are no recommendations at the moment. We will make it more clear on the app when that happens.
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
You would pay us $1k (20% of $5k)
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Show HN: I built a service to help companies reduce AWS spend by 50%
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
Unsurprising - AWS has been the front-runner for a while now. They have been aggressively marketing their capabilities to the US government and are well-positioned to win this type of contract. Whoever wins these contracts, I hope that taxp
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
Thanks for sharing! You're 100% right that cloud providers aren't exactly incentivized to make it as easy as possible for you to use those credits. If credits were super easy to use and could be applied automatically where you nee
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
Great survey! I'd be surprised if the majority of respondents to "do you feel your organisation pays a lot for cloud infrastructure?" said "no." If the results are anything like what other reports on the topic say,
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
It being someone else's computer brings the not-always-obvious effect that costs are out of your control. A lot of startups get sticker shock when they first realize how much it costs to use a full-fledged cloud operation. That's
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
Hey there! I've been doing a lot of thinking about this lately, and I really think it depends on the project. For smaller projects, I think working locally can be just as effective as working in the cloud. However, for larger projects,
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
Even if the big 3 all switch places, it's still an oligopoly, which means that prices are higher than they could be. That's why my company, Usage.AI, has built a tool to automatically buy and sell Reserved Instances on AWS to cut
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
The big three do have clear benefits in terms of scale, reliability, and features, so I'd say it's worth it to look at "accessory" applications that run on top of them. Looking at YCombinator's alumni, there are a f
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
Tacking onto another comment, companies aren't just leaving GCP for AWS - the NSA recently left Microsoft to award Amazon a $10 billion contract [1]. Mindshare is definitely key, but there's also the fact that AWS has been around
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
Interesting that decisions like these don't seem to get a ton of attention from taxpayers. Businesses have a natural incentive to find cost-cutting methods and pass those savings on to their customers - not exactly the same here. My co
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by kavehkhorram 4y ago
Thanks for sharing this! That triopoly - or oligopoly, if you prefer - is really bad for startups. It's not just that the big players can charge whatever they want. They also keep coming up with new ways to raise prices. It's gott
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
Hi Folks -- one important thing I should highlight about Usage is that it's more than just a RI recommender. All Usage RIs are backed by guaranteed buy-back so if you stop using an RI, Usage buys it back. This ends the need for custome
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
If there are savings recommendations to be had, generally takes 2-4 minutes to generate. Can you email me the email you used to sign up so I can personally take a look at this for you? kaveh@usage.ai
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
Hi -- one thing I should mention (what makes us special) is that we offer all our RIs with guaranteed buy-back. So you're getting the 57% discount of a 3-year no-upfront RI, but have the option to sell it back to us anytime after 30 da
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
Thanks!
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Show HN: Usage, Cut your AWS Bill by 50%+ in 5 Minutes
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