Usage
Infrastructure
cloud cost optimization
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
3 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Performance: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Savings tools like this can yield large gains; 'obvious in retrospect'
From 1 comment
You'd think companies spend more time trying to optimize their spend but I've seen 6 figure changes from tools like this. Filed under "obvious in retrospect".
Shindi on HN
Buy-now button and consolidated view make it more usable than AWS tooling
From 1 comment
TL;DR: 0.2% theoretical savings. I was not suprised. It came with the exact recommendation AWS gives, to replace one instance with a reserved instance & save about 240$ anually.…
boesboes on HN
Objections
Savings small for commenters already using spot and reservations
From 2 comments
Cool, I'll give it a try. I dont think there is much gain to be had as we are mostly on spot & reserved instances already, but I'd gladly be suprised ;)
boesboes on HNTL;DR: 0.2% theoretical savings. I was not suprised. It came with the exact recommendation AWS gives, to replace one instance with a reserved instance & save about 240$ anually.…
boesboes on HN
Does not cover RDS or ElastiCache
From 1 comment
TL;DR: 0.2% theoretical savings. I was not suprised. It came with the exact recommendation AWS gives, to replace one instance with a reserved instance & save about 240$ anually.…
boesboes on HN
Enterprise FinOps tools already cover this
From 1 comment
To be fair, this is well covered with most enterprise scale Finops for CSP.
BaconPackets on HN
Requests
Cover RDS and ElastiCache spend
From 1 comment
TL;DR: 0.2% theoretical savings. I was not suprised. It came with the exact recommendation AWS gives, to replace one instance with a reserved instance & save about 240$ anually.…
boesboes on HN
Release an open-source version
From 1 comment
Questions
Why no recommendations appeared for a new account
From 1 comment
Thank you for the detailed feedback! I created an account this morning but got no suggestions on my end... I don't know if I have to wait a few days or if what is done is done…
cx42net on HN
Alternatives named
AWS's own cost advisor and recommendations
From 2 comments
TL;DR: 0.2% theoretical savings. I was not suprised. It came with the exact recommendation AWS gives, to replace one instance with a reserved instance & save about 240$ anually.…
boesboes on HNAndy Jassy. And my understanding is that they're actually happy to save the customer money in the short-term, because that helps ensure that the customer will have more long-term…
bradknowles on HN
Enterprise FinOps tooling
From 1 comment
To be fair, this is well covered with most enterprise scale Finops for CSP.
BaconPackets on HN