Vantage
Infrastructure
cloud cost monitoring
SHOW HN2021
How HN took it
4 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.23.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Caught a 50% month-over-month cost increase that had been overlooked
From 1 comment
I’m a happy customer. Vantage caught (after a week) a 50% month over month increase we had overlooked. So we were able to rein it in and mitigate damage.
bberenberg on HN
Useful for small teams struggling to monitor costs
From 1 comment
I'd love to use this today. Will try it out. We are a small team and have a hard time monitoring costs. The AWS billing alerts (which I setup after realizing too late that our ES…
atonse on HN
Free tier appeals to users wanting to try it
From 1 comment
Thanks for offering a free tier. Will check it out and have a look at things.
ensemblehq on HN
Objections
Cloud model criticized for cost and lock-in
From 1 comment
The original premise of clouds was good. Allow companies to run their software on someone else's machines. The cloud guys wanted to make more money so they started cloning…
therealbilly on HN
Requests
Collaboration features for sharing with teams and consultants
From 1 comment
Exactly. You nailed it. It's similar to a Github repo in some respects. Developers will connect their AWS account, invite their teams and temporarily add folks like cloud…
StratusBen on HN
Questions
Whether it makes cost consultants redundant
From 1 comment
Would this finally make was cost consultants redundant? (Prob not)
Maven911 on HN
Alternatives named
AWS native billing alerts and cost tools
From 1 comment
I'd love to use this today. Will try it out. We are a small team and have a hard time monitoring costs. The AWS billing alerts (which I setup after realizing too late that our ES…
atonse on HN