Vantage Autopilot
Infrastructure
cloud cost optimization
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
5 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.
Idea: 4 for, 5 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Low 5% fee compared with competitors' 20-30%
From 2 comments
There are a number of providers in this space. You're correct that for this specific feature, the main difference is the cost to the customer. Usage publicly states that they…
StratusBen on HNI believe Autopilot is competitive with Spot's "Eco" product. From what we've heard, Spot by NetApp charges somewhere between 20% and 30% of the savings found. Vantage Autopilot…
StratusBen on HN
Useful value for cloud credit users
From 2 comments
This is really cool! If you do what you say you do, this is a lot of value to be had relative to the costs. We're coming to the end of our cloud credits and I was thinking about…
yaseer on HNNot really; if Vantage works as advertised it's basically free money and it should be multiplicative with any savings due to app changes.
wmf on HN
Objections
Risk of over-commitment and unsellable RIs in marketplace
From 3 comments
An off by one error by vantage makes your company purchase hundreds of not needed 3 year commitments
candiddevmike on HNIf it misbehaves and buys too many / the wrong kind of RIs, you will be locked in to a high monthly AWS bill until you can sell the RIs on the AWS RI marketplace, which has a…
meatmanek on HNIt could purchase numerous RI's and then find there's no market for selling them.
bonetruck on HN
Billing charged despite free trial sign-up
From 1 comment
I signed up, it told me I had to upgrade to Pro, and there was a 14 day trial. I signed up for the trial, provided my CC, and it still charged me $30. Not a huge deal, but can…
atonse on HN
Requests
Support for GCP
From 2 comments
Can someone do this for GCP?
marban on HNDeveloper advocate at Vantage here. Using their committed use discount mechanism is definitely on our radar. We just rolled out Google Cloud support earlier this year…
epberry on HN
Support for other AWS services beyond EC2
From 1 comment
Noticed all these recommended permissions in that doc page: ``` "ec2:PurchaseReservedInstancesOffering", "rds:PurchaseReservedDBInstancesOffering",…
myroon5 on HN
Questions
How the RI marketplace liquidity and unsold risk are handled
From 2 comments
This looks very interesting! Given that you're purchasing 3-year RIs and then selling them on the marketplace, do you have stats on the risk of a listing not being purchased by…
jabo on HNInteresting project! As for the market, do you guarantee a buyer? Also, what's the difference between Vantage selling our overprovisioned RIs vs us listing it to the marketplace…
Jimmy246 on HN
Whether it works across AWS organizations
From 1 comment
Since reserved instances are shared across AWS organizations: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/ri-behavior.html Does this work across AWS…
myroon5 on HN
Alternatives named
usage.ai
From 1 comment
Seems like a clone of https://www.usage.ai which has been on the frontpage a few times recently, but just undercutting the finders fee - I guess that's the "other providers that…
tehalex on HN
Spot.io (Spot by NetApp) Eco
From 1 comment
Is there a difference between your service and SpotInst aka Spot.io? Do you claim to have a better algorithm? It would be interesting to load the same app with both companies and…
shmatt on HN
CAST AI
From 1 comment
You could also try CAST AI - savings report is free so you don't need to sign any contract to see how much you could save. For some users ie we've saved 90% - $124k/mo cloud…
BlackPlot on HN