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Re:Show HN: I built a service to help companies save on thei... by dave_sid on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:17PM (#23782508)
I like this. What a great idea for a consultancy. There must be so many organisations that are paying way more than they need by not tweaking each aws service they are using. Anything from using the wrong S3 storage type to using ECS when they could switch to Fargate.
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Re:Show HN: I built a service to help companies save on thei... by kavehkhorram on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:44PM (#23782852)
You're exactly right. We've even seen very small pre-seed companies (with just a handful of EC2s) throwing away a few thousand dollars annually in extra charges to AWS. The problem becomes even bigger at large companies.
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Re:Show HN: I built a service to help companies save on thei... by dave_sid on Thursday July 09, 2020 @02:04PM (#23783104)
If you could somehow automate this and provide a tool that did analysis of a companies aws stack usage over a month and suggest configuration changes that would be a big thing.
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Re:Show HN: I built a service to help companies save on thei... by kavehkhorram on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:15PM (#23783938)
That's what Usage does - we aren't a consultancy to be clear. We automate all of our recommendations (and occasionally add a human layer above it)
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Re:Show HN: I built a service to help companies save on thei... by mindhash on Thursday July 09, 2020 @03:41PM (#23784210)
That reminds me early stage startup’s betting big on Kubernetes
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