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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
Love what you are doing here! GCP just raised prices [1] so I wonder if there are still these region-based discounts to be had. Just my 2 cents: Would be amazing if this could automatically change to the most cost-effective machine type for
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
Yep -- no change. Not even an instance swap.
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
Yes we do -- as long as it's EKS or ECS with EC2 under the hood :)
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Show HN: I built a service to help companies reduce AWS spend by 50%+
2 points by kavehkhorram 5y ago|5 comments
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A Company Nearly Went Bankrupt Paying for GCP(blog.tomilkieway.com)
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
Interesting, but not too sure the connection here.
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
Hi HN: Kaveh here, founder of www.usage.ai I'm organizing a Webinar with the goal of companies being able to further optimize their own AWS spend. In this webinar, we will be going over 21 different ways you can reduce your AWS spend.
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
Glad to finally see gov design finally getting close to private industry!
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Show HN: A Better Alternative to the AWS Console
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Show HN: AWS Savings Delivered Directly to Slack
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
Hi FujiApple, We use the sts:AssumeRole policy to create temporary short-lived credentials for us to get access to the AWS APIs on your behalf. The assume role permission is constrained only to the policy we've defined on our landing p
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
Usage refreshes its recommendations on a daily basis. When your instance count increases, Usage buys RIs. When it decreases or changes, Usage sells RIs. Our RIs are actually more flexible than SP. There is no commitment and if you want to c
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
Yes -- as long as it's backed by EC2, we support cost reduction for EKS and ECS.
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
Many of our customers are on EKS or ECS backed by EC2!
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
Yes - you can! Feel free to shoot me a note and we can chat more about this: kaveh@usage.ai
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
We have optimization features early in R&D for RDS, ElastiCache, and OpenSearch. If you'd like to try them out at some point, feel free to shoot me a note: kaveh@usage.ai
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
We have a strong positive relationship with AWS and will be partners with them in the coming months!
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by kavehkhorram 5y ago
The user's account!
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Show HN: I built a service to help companies reduce AWS spend by 50%(usage.ai)
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by kavehkhorram 6y ago
Hey everyone, Kaveh here. I'm the founder of Usage AI. Looking forward to answer your questions!
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Show HN: We help companies take back money from AWS
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Show HN: I built a service to help companies save on their AWS bills
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Show HN: I built a service to help you cut down AWS bills
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by kavehkhorram 6y ago
Hey everyone, Kaveh here. I founded Usage AI. Prior to Usage AI, I worked as a software engineer at early stage startups, a medium-sized 1200 person company, and as a lead software engineer at a large F500 company. Looking forward to answer
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Show HN: Usage AI: We reduce your AWS bill by 45%
2 points by kavehkhorram 6y ago|1 comments
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by kavehkhorram 6y ago
Disclosure: I am the founder of Usage.ai The product my team works on, www.usage.ai, automates the process of finding AWS savings using ML (through reserved instances, savings plans, spots, and rightsizing). Every recommendation is shown on
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by kavehkhorram 6y ago
1. We're currently focused on EC2s (it's been the largest line item for our first few customers). 2. Rightsizing and spot fleet management keep our users coming back - but our customers get the most value the first month. Almost a
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by kavehkhorram 6y ago
It really depends on the size and configuration of the organization. It might be manageable at a few dozen people, but it becomes much more difficult to scale when you have 1,000+ engineers all working on different accounts with different a
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by kavehkhorram 6y ago
That's what Usage does - we aren't a consultancy to be clear. We automate all of our recommendations (and occasionally add a human layer above it)
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by kavehkhorram 6y ago
You're exactly right. We've even seen very small pre-seed companies (with just a handful of EC2s) throwing away a few thousand dollars annually in extra charges to AWS. The problem becomes even bigger at large companies.

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