Vantage
Infrastructure
cloud cost management dashboard
SHOW HN2021
221points
87comments
#192of 2,533 in 2021
Top 8%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
20 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 10 critical, out of 47 comments about the project. Thread score +0.22.
Idea: 7 for, 4 againstDesign: 6 for, 2 againstPricing: 2 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean UI and cost visibility per resource
From 3 comments
Within 30 seconds of signing up for Vantage I discovered an old unused EC2 instance I was still paying $17/month for. This made me realize how weirdly hard it is to see a usable…
dazzeloid on HNLooks nice! Surprised something like this hasn't come out sooner. The AWS UI is a hot mess. Good luck.
lawnchair on HNCongrats on the product launch, looks a neat UI. AWS easily has the worst UX of the three major clouds I've used. From that perspective my favourite by far is GCP. Do you forsee…
adwww on HN
Read-only cross-account IAM role approach praised for security
From 1 comment
I'm so refreshed to see this designed this way. I assumed that they would be asking for an API key or equivalent, because I don't know anything about the product team or the…
philsnow on HN
Objections
Not really an alternative console since it cannot make changes
From 3 comments
Although this is a nice little simplified view into your AWS account I think calling it an "alternative AWS console" is misleading because you can't actually do anything with it,…
VectorLock on HNI was a bit whelmed when I used it. I expeced an alternative to the AWS console, but got a monitoring dashboard. Didn't seem like I could do much with it besides looking at my…
k__ on HNI guess, I would like to do what I can do with the actual AWS console. Provision and update my resources. Otherwise it's, like I said, only another monitoring dashboard. I mean,…
k__ on HN
Pricing unclear and high for small users
From 2 comments
This is pretty nice, but it's not really an "alternative" to the console, is it? It's a pretty nice complementary monitoring dashboard though. Pricing wise, I have to be honest,…
beshrkayali on HNI think there needs to be better pricing. I know pricing is hard but there should at least be a call to action if you have much a much bigger spend than what is on the pricing…
jensenbox on HN
Requests
Support for GCP and Azure
From 2 comments
Congrats on the product launch, looks a neat UI. AWS easily has the worst UX of the three major clouds I've used. From that perspective my favourite by far is GCP. Do you forsee…
adwww on HNI admit that I love this UI for cloud management, and I'd love more to be able to use it with GCP too because accessing GCP console is another kind of pain compared to AWS.
a012 on HN
Self-hosted version
From 1 comment
Any thoughts on a self hosted version? (I didn't look too closely at all the marketing stuff if this is already addressed) Would be nice to put something like this up behind our…
synunlimited on HN
Ability to make changes and provision resources
From 1 comment
I guess, I would like to do what I can do with the actual AWS console. Provision and update my resources. Otherwise it's, like I said, only another monitoring dashboard. I mean,…
k__ on HN
Questions
How credentials are handled and security of access
From 2 comments
How does it handle credentials? What's the potential for Vantage being hacked and the hackers gaining admin access to your users' AWS accounts?
raylad on HNHow does this work? Do you have servers that connect to AWS using my credentials?
trestenhortz on HN
How it compares to other cost management tools like stax.io and CloudQuery
From 2 comments
Hiya, interesting offering and exploring it now :) How does this compare to, for example, stax.io which does similar cost transparency but also offers compliance monitoring and…
rswail on HNLooks good, congrats! Open source alternative https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery
yevpats on HN
Alternatives named
CloudQuery
From 1 comment
Looks good, congrats! Open source alternative https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery
yevpats on HN
stax.io
From 1 comment
Hiya, interesting offering and exploring it now :) How does this compare to, for example, stax.io which does similar cost transparency but also offers compliance monitoring and…
rswail on HN
AWS Cost Explorer and billing console
From 2 comments
Congrats on launching a product. I think it’s a great idea for small - medium sized shops to use this. I used to be an SRE at a large company with a gigantic AWS account. While…
isatty on HNAWS Cost Explorer easily reveals all resources in an account: https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-cost-explorer/
itisit on HN