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Re:Show HN: I built a service to help companies save on thei... by emersonrsantos on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:56AM (#23777068)
Doesn’t AWS compute optimizer does the same? What’s the difference?
Re:Show HN: I built a service to help companies save on thei... by kavehkhorram on Thursday July 09, 2020 @09:23AM (#23779871)
Hi emersonrsantos,

Good question!

With Usage, every enterprise customer gets their own fine-tuned model. AWS compute optimizer throws the same standardized model to all of their users. I can't compare our models to the ones AWS compute optimizer uses - but I can tell you that we've never had a complaint about a customer taking a recommendation and regretting it later on.

Additionally, we have humans look over every recommendation to ensure quality. Typically we have an understanding of a customer's cloud infrastructure before they sign up for Usage - and the human in the loop uses that information to grade recommendations produced by Usage's models.