Vantage MCP Server
Finance and crypto
cloud cost management
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1 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score -0.30.
Idea: 0 for, 4 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 1 against
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Useful context from cost reports and filters makes LLM answers better than raw AWS APIs
From 1 comment
A few things. The biggest is giving the LLM context. On Vantage we have a primitive called a "Cost Report" that you can think of as being a set of filters. So you can create a…
StratusBen on HN
Objections
Dual or non-commercial license wording contradicts MIT license
From 4 comments
How does this work? https://github.com/vantage-sh/vantage-mcp-server?tab=License-1-ov-file#non-commercial-use That is extra weird when thinking about the audience who might be…
mdaniel on HNI'm just trying to understand licenses, but doesn't the choice of MIT contradict the inital "non-commercial purposes" as MIT says 'including without limitation the rights to use,…
bluck on HNYou have a couple problems that I can see: One is the MIT license does not prohibit selling. And wrapping it in a "for non-commercial uses" clause creates a contradiction…
ddingus on HNSo if I want to use the software I just have to create a fork on my home machine for non-commercial purposes, update the license to MIT only, and then the fork is mine to do with…
globalise83 on HN
Storing production credentials in config files is risky
From 1 comment
On a related note, I'm not sure when it became "ok" to leave production credentials scattered across your system in configuration files. So many MCP server examples encourage…
_pdp_ on HN
Requests
Support for more LLM clients and short-lived OAuth tokens instead of static credentials
From 1 comment
Vantage engineer who worked on this feature here. The security posture of MCP servers is still in its early stages (see “The ‘S’ in MCP Stands for Security” from three weeks ago…
nel-vantage on HN
Questions
What is the difference from connecting an LLM directly to AWS cost APIs?
From 1 comment
What's the difference between connecting an LLM to the data through Vantage vs directly to the AWS cost and usage API's?
andrenotgiant on HN
How to manage credentials securely for MCP servers?
From 1 comment
What is your preferred way to manage them?
Game_Ender on HN
Alternatives named
AWS cost analysis MCP server (awslabs)
From 1 comment
AWS have also made their own cost analysis MCP server https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/tree/main/src/cost-analysis-mcp-server
ponywombat on HN
RunSecret (rsec)
From 1 comment
The 1pass CLI is great! However if you aren’t using 1password as your secrets vault, I’m building an open source, vault-agnostic alternative called RunSecret…
devenjarvis on HN
1Password CLI
From 1 comment
1Password’s CLI op does a reasonably good job of this
ivanvanderbyl on HN