mickeyt500

Simple & helpful! Thanks for making this..

Would you be referring to their pricing page or AWS pricing calculator? Assuming it's later, the AWS pricing calculator displays only 100% utilization Savings Plans rates and doesn't display breakevens. These are useful when determining how much to commit.

Thank you :)

Hello HN, We created an AWS Savings Plans calculator. A simple calculator to determine how much Compute or EC2 Savings plan commitment is required for your use case.

AWS computes your Savings Plans recommendation in the cost explorer. However, in some cases, there will be No Recommendations for any selection of options. Possible causes could be due to:

- The average On-Demand spend of the EC2s is less than $0.10/hour

- The EC2s are not on 100% utilization (i.e., not running 24/7)

- The EC2s have partial or complete coverage with RIs

In these cases, you can still leverage the flexibility and discounts that Savings Plans offer, but this will require manually calculating the commitment necessary. This is where the calculator comes in handy. The calculator will allow you to:

- Calculate total EC2/Compute Savings Plans commitment for 1-year or 3-year commitments

- Mix and aggregate calculations for different regions and instance families

- Specify the quantities and Utilization (On-demand hours) to ensure you do not over-commit

- Give you a visual breakeven point for your use case

We'd love to hear about any feedback, ideas, or questions you might have!

Thanks for the support!

Hello Everyone,

We are excited to share the launch of Cost DeepDive; An analysis tool for your AWS Cost and Usage Report (CUR). Cost DeepDive is a new feature offering within our application cloudshim (https://cloudshim.com).

AWS Cost Explorer provides usage information at a high level and not enough granularity for detailed operations. Cost Deepdive is built on the AWS CUR and is customizable, allowing for slicing and dicing your data to analyze your usage in-depth.

Features:

- Filtering capabilities

- 14 Slicing options (Operation, pricing, Usage Type, Instance, Description, etc.)

- Human readable data output (transformation queries for every column, e.g., truncating ARNs to extract resource ids)

- Arrange data slices in any order

- Pass any data from the table to the charts for visual analysis

- Different types of charts for visualization

- Daily/Monthly views with predefined durations

- Ability to save your analysis View

We'd love to hear about any feedback, ideas, or questions you might have!

Hello HN community,

My brother and I co-founded Cloudshim, a light weight AWS cloud management platform for developers, allowing you to easily visualize your cloud inventory, view associated costs and areas you can save.

We crafted every feature based on issues we experienced building a passion project on cloud. View spend by product, tags, account and deepdive into operational data with a single click. Get reports daily on Slack and Email. Set schedules on underutilized resources. Cut costs with Inventory, rightsizing and Saving Plan recommendations.

Cloudshim is built to deliver enterprise level cloud management to SMBs and individual developers. We offer a forever FREE tier for accounts with < 1k monthly spend on AWS.

Setting up is easy and < 2 minutes. We would love to hear your thoughts about it or if you have any questions.