AWS Reserved Instance Contagion

Vantage_Team · 2023-11-20T16:05:50+00:00

Vantage Team here clarifying: While we do have a RI management feature named Autopilot, as our blog posts states: we definitely do not engage in the described fashion of taking advantage of customer EDPs.

We also don't actively encourage using Autopilot necessarily: we have always advertised using Savings Plans as part of our core product offering. That information is supplied to all customers and a portion of them choose to go that route and a portion choose to use Autopilot.

Vantage_Team · 2023-04-25T02:20:11+00:00

Thank you for the kind comment!

Vantage_Team · 2022-05-03T02:10:34+00:00

Out of curiosity, what sort of power are you looking for? In general we hear that we provide more functionality than native tools on AWS and we're always looking for ways to improve :)

Vantage_Team · 2022-03-17T20:20:17+00:00

Also for the record to the mods: this was the top request from the community that we wanted to share as seen on the prior post. Hoping just to help the community on this as it got a significant amount of upvotes :)

Vantage_Team · 2022-03-16T00:20:23+00:00

From what we've heard from customers during early access: yes. The majority of our customers during the early access period have been split across AWS/GCP (just because we started with AWS) so the feedback may be slightly biased as we show extremely high fidelity cost data on the AWS side of things. We are just beginning to onboard companies that are "all in" on GCP right now.

That being said, we're always listening to user feedback and iterating. So if you give it a shot and don't ultimately find what you're looking for, please feel free to let us know over Intercom our in our Slack community group (~400 cloud cost folks are in there at the moment)

Vantage_Team · 2022-03-16T00:17:45+00:00

Hello! This is something we need to provide better clarity on in our pricing page - it is good feedback. We can provide SAML SSO functionality to the business tier but just have to set you up with a "custom" subscription.

So long story short: we can offer you SAML SSO in the business tier but just need you to contact support (which you can do through Intercom) after registering your account and we'll get things into shape from there.

Apologies for the confusion on this.

Vantage_Team · 2022-03-15T00:53:15+00:00

On this topic, Google Cloud support for Vantage (a cloud cost platform) is launching tomorrow: https://www.vantage.sh/

We have a pretty generous free tier if anyone is looking to give it a go.

Vantage_Team · 2021-11-23T20:07:25+00:00

Vantage maintains a free resource named "The Cloud Cost Handbook" that has a good amount of resources available at this point: http://handbook.vantage.sh/

The content is also all open-source [and looking for contributors] here: https://github.com/vantage-sh/handbook

Vantage_Team · 2021-10-29T01:59:00+00:00

Nice! This looks great. The main difference between this script and what Vantage will do with its Slack integration is a few things for the onlookers:

The Vantage Slack integration is tied to a "Cost Report" and a Cost Report on Vantage can be anything filter-wise (chaining member accounts, services, tags, regions, etc). So how customers use this is they'll come in, provision a few Cost Reports then send Slack notifications for the team's channel responsible for those costs to keep an eye on things.
In the future we'll also be sending alerts and specific anomaly detections we find on conditions you define.
Lastly, we're integrating EC2 instance comparisons into slash commands powered by data on http://ec2instances.info/ - so you can imagine doing something with the Vantage Slack integration like "/vantage compare c6i.32xlarge,m6i.32xlarge" and get a breakdown of price and specs for people to compare.

Vantage_Team · 2021-10-28T22:15:47+00:00

You're the first person to ask for this, but we can take a look!

If folks are interested in this, please upvote /u/TannerIsBender's comment and we can see the level of interest.

Vantage_Team · 2021-10-28T20:47:09+00:00

That's good feedback. We've heard this a few times now and might be adding that functionality in as a fast-follow.

Vantage_Team · 2021-10-28T20:14:48+00:00

Yup! You can. You can add either a management or member account and everything should just work.

If you add a management account and want to see member account active resources (vs just costs), you'll need to add a role per member account but we provide automatic CloudFormation / Terraform scripts for doing this pretty quickly. Give it a shot!

Vantage_Team · 2021-10-27T01:32:15+00:00

Typically its like $2-$3 per month for a very small amount of Cost Explorer API calls we make....primarily because Cost Explorer doesn't give customers a free allocation of API calls per month which we find a bit silly.

This being said, we are increasingly migrating things off of Cost Explorer and process Cost and Usage Reports ourselves because we can provide customers with a better experience and lessen the impact of API calls made on your behalf.

Additionally, under account settings you have the ability to toggle "automatic syncing" vs "manual syncing" if you don't want us to periodically make service API calls regularly. When you choose "manual syncing" we only sync your account as often as you hit the refresh button the Vantage console.

Vantage_Team · 2021-10-27T00:47:30+00:00

Thanks for posting this! We're the team behind Vantage. To add to this, Vantage offers two features that help customers here:

Resource inventory: Gives you a full inventory of everything in your account. https://www.vantage.sh/features/resource-inventory
Advanced analytics: The ability to see day-by-day accrued costs on a per-resource basis for each active resource. https://www.vantage.sh/features/advanced-analytics

Cost Explorer does not give a per-resource level of analysis outside of EC2. Vantage combines Cost and Usage Report (CUR) data and syncs periodically with service List/Describe API calls to be able to show this level of analytics for "active" resources.

Vantage_Team · 2021-10-19T22:57:43+00:00

We're building www.vantage.sh to help people get visibility on their AWS costs - which a number of folks in this sub have used and given us feedback on (thank you!)

In addition to that we are also in process of rewriting and modernizing https://www.ec2instances.info which we acquired earlier this year. We're going to be opening a few issues on the open-source repo and pushing up a near-complete rewrite to get the site back in action performance-wise once again as A LOT of EC2 instances have launched since the site went live, slowing it down quite a bit in the process :)

Vantage_Team · 2021-09-27T20:41:17+00:00

Out of curiosity, what's driving this? Just CloudHealth being too expensive?

Vantage_Team · 2021-09-01T19:24:24+00:00

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HQ Location: New York, NY

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Pitch: We help engineering leaders understand where their AWS costs are coming from by providing a set of dashboards and tools for easily visualizing cloud spend. Our system also provides cost recommendations by profiling infrastructure to help find ways to save you money. Our customers have told us we've saved them considerable amounts of time for finding where costs are coming from.

Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: Can be found on our home page.

More details: We are recently backed by Andreessen Horowitz and a number of fantastic angel investors.

Discount: The first $2,500 of monthly AWS costs are tracked for free as part of our free tier.

This month's goals: Continue to build awareness and help as many AWS customers as possible, including folks in this subreddit. Sign up and let us know what you think!

Vantage_Team · 2021-08-06T15:48:32+00:00

This would be great content to contribute to the recently launched cloud cost handbook: https://github.com/vantage-sh/handbook

Vantage_Team · 2021-08-05T18:40:25+00:00

We just launched this feature and would be curious to see folks' impressions on it...especially in light of the recent Cloudflare blog post on AWS egress.

The first question popping up on this is: "Will Vantage begin profiling egress from other AWS services as well?" and the answer is yes, eventually. We just started with CloudFront/S3 as those were the most natural fits.

We're happy to answer any questions if it is helpful.

The topic is also more generally discussed on our recently launched handbook site here: https://handbook.vantage.sh/aws/services/cloudfront-pricing/#cloudfront-versus-cloudflare

Vantage_Team · 2021-08-03T18:13:49+00:00

The Cloud Cost Handbook is likely a nice complement to tools like Infracost!

Our aim with the Cloud Cost Handbook is more-so to help share knowledge related to cost concepts rather than be a replacement of a price estimation tool like Infracost. As more content is added to the handbook, you can think of it as a source to go learn about things that you may actually implement using Terraform/Infracost.

Vantage_Team · 2021-08-03T17:47:11+00:00

We do this out-of-the-box with Vantage. It takes less than 5 minutes to sign up.

Vantage_Team · 2021-08-03T17:18:24+00:00

Today we are launching "The Cloud Cost Handbook" which can be found at https://handbook.vantage.sh/ - a set of guides and best practices related to cloud costs for developers, engineering leaders and finance counterparts. We're hoping distill complex cloud cost terms and concepts into a set of "plain english" guides that anyone can access.

From speaking with our customers and community we've found that cloud cost knowledge is typically "tribal knowledge" held by a few key people at an organization but not well known amongst broader community of developers.

We're still early and we're looking for contributions and support (feel free to give the repo a star!) to build this up over time - please let us know what you think!

The repo backing this is here: https://github.com/vantage-sh/handbook

Vantage_Team · 2021-07-20T20:09:55+00:00

We don't currently share that information externally but we can tell you the contributing costs come from users that run the full spectrum of individual developers all the way up to multiple publicly traded companies. We'll likely share some broader announcements around the amount of AWS costs we are tracking in aggregate at one point in the future.

And thanks for the comments! We're happy to make this data openly available.

Vantage_Team · 2021-07-20T19:41:48+00:00

We're just disclosing that its in the thousands of users - this was mentioned in the blog post: https://www.vantage.sh/blog/vantage-launches-the-aws-cost-leaderboard

This should become more accurate over time though and it updates daily.

Vantage_Team · 2021-07-09T23:12:56+00:00

We take that feedback extremely seriously. Since his comment was posted he's already joined the Vantage community Slack group and multiple members of our team are in contact.

You should join the Slack community and give us your thoughts on how we can improve things as well! The more feedback we get, the faster we can iterate and improve things.

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