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Interesting business model. You're essentially loaning companies money for the RIs, right? So if all your customers sold them back to you you'd be in trouble, like a loan…

Neat idea. Why gate it to companies that already have existing AWS setups though? You are basically a secondary EC2 marketplace. Couldn't people just get an instance from you…

It is nice. I do this manually for companies (short contracts); great if I can do more automation and less manual work as often it is repetitive.

> So you get the steep 57% savings of 3-year no-upfront RIs with none of the commitment (you can sell them back to us anytime after 30 days) … We make money off a 20% Savings Fee…

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…

You may want to reconsider this assumption. The cloud companies may be relatively "recession proof" because more companies are migrating to the cloud. However, their customers…

Very interesting idea - I'd be wary of this rubbing the wrong way against AWS's TOS though.

cool, is this against any terms of AWS? Seems at the very least it'd be a gray area.

terms for something like AWS have all sorts of restrictions. Just thought there could be something in there against transferring instances.

Three Show HNs of the same project in 3 months is excessive. Show HN: Usage, Cut your AWS Bill by 50%+ in 5 Minutes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31015171 - April 2022…

Any plans to expand this to other AWS services in the near future? At least the popular ones like RDS and Elasticache? Also, what happens if an organization is currently using…

Can your software also implement hard budget limits for users/groups?

Neat idea. Why gate it to companies that already have existing AWS setups though? You are basically a secondary EC2 marketplace. Couldn't people just get an instance from you…

Interesting business model. You're essentially loaning companies money for the RIs, right? So if all your customers sold them back to you you'd be in trouble, like a loan…

Right but if someone sells you back their RIs, aren't you on the hook for paying for them if you can't resell them? So that's like a loan.

Looks really cool! The verification email went to spam – I used my Gmail email. Also, I refreshed the page when I finished setting up and the "Generating Recommendations" message…

I only recently heard of this idea at the AWS Summit when talking to a rep of one of your competitors (Zesty), they have a minimum spend of $7k. Your pricing page says there's no…

I only recently heard of this idea at the AWS Summit when talking to a rep of one of your competitors (Zesty), they have a minimum spend of $7k. Your pricing page says there's no…

I'd assume they have volume discounts or negotiated rates with Amazon that bring that point forward. There's an entire sub industry of billing partners who are profitable enough…