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At Perfect Audience (where I worked with the CloudForecast team!) we spent a lot on AWS and used vendors to help monitor the…",{"value":103,"source":76,"evidence":104},"Daily reports and up\u002Fdown indicators catch spikes at a glance",[105,109],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"17552372","brunomiranda","We have been using this at Doximity for a while now it is excellent. The daily reports and clear indicators of increase\u002Fdecrease are helpful to identify spikes at a glance.",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"17557560","tholgare","We use this at the company I work for, Slingshot, and it has definitely been helpful for keeping an eye on things like huge dev environments that get spun up and not shut back…",{"value":114,"source":76,"evidence":115},"Saved money by replacing a pricing vendor",[116],{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},[118,125,136],{"value":119,"source":76,"evidence":120},"Pricing too high for small usage budgets",[121],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"17553819","cyberferret","Nice service. 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