Usage
Infrastructure
cloud cost optimization
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
1 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 5 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score -0.21.
Idea: 1 for, 4 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Gap in the market for AWS cost optimization as a service
From 1 comment
Part of a recent project I worked on involved this very issue, and significant savings are definitely possible. As an idea this is great, there's a gap in the market for this and…
Simon_O_Rourke on HN
Similar to energyogre.com applied to EC2 RIs
From 1 comment
this is like energyogre.com but for EC2 RIs. really nice.
nunez on HN
Objections
sts:AssumeRole permission is too broad without resource or condition limits
From 1 comment
The IAM policy shown on the website allows sts:AssumeRole without any restricting on resources or conditions which will be a deal breaker for many. Presumably you can restrict…
FujiApple on HN
Many companies are uneasy granting IAM access to third parties
From 1 comment
Part of a recent project I worked on involved this very issue, and significant savings are definitely possible. As an idea this is great, there's a gap in the market for this and…
Simon_O_Rourke on HN
Risk of AWS shutting it down or competing once large
From 1 comment
That feels like something that AWS would want to shut down if the business ever gets large enough. AWS has its own partners / AWS distribution program, which usage.ai doesn't…
viraptor on HN
Engineering managers do not prioritise cutting cloud spend
From 1 comment
Part of a recent project I worked on involved this very issue, and significant savings are definitely possible. As an idea this is great, there's a gap in the market for this and…
Simon_O_Rourke on HN
Requests
Support for RDS, ElastiCache and OpenSearch savings
From 1 comment
Interesting idea however in my experience EC2 is generally not where I need to start optimizing my AWS bills. RDS & other state [1] are by far the largest line items on my bills.…
everfrustrated on HN
Explain how resale risk of bought-back instances is handled
From 1 comment
How do you handle the risk of not being able to resell instances that you've bought back? What if I buy 10,000 instances and sell them back to you after 30 days? Seems like a…
testplzignore on HN
Questions
How are temporary usage spikes handled
From 1 comment
I guess self-service is good most of the times, but how is it going to handle temporary increase in resource usage? Think of a big infra refactoring project where a team may…
stunt on HN
Why Reserved Instances rather than Savings Plans
From 1 comment
I guess self-service is good most of the times, but how is it going to handle temporary increase in resource usage? Think of a big infra refactoring project where a team may…
stunt on HN
Alternatives named
Cast.ai
From 2 comments
Has anyone used Cast.ai or Spot by netapp as a comparison?
wcdolphin on HNWe use cast.ai and it certainly has saved us a LOT of money. I unfortunately am not on the implementation / devops side of this, but it has been worth using, or can speak to…
theogravity on HN
Spot.io Eco
From 1 comment
Spot has an almost idential service to this called Eco https://spot.io/products/eco/ It reads your cost and usage report + AWS APIs and offers RI options for you to purchase or…
Thristle on HN
CloudHealth
From 1 comment
Isn’t this one of the features by cloudhealth [0] https://www.cloudhealthtech.com
tthun on HN
OtterTune for RDS and Aurora
From 1 comment
ottertune.com optimizes RDS & Aurora, just fyi
secondrow on HN