[HN Gopher] Get AWS costs posted directly to Slack
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Get AWS costs posted directly to Slack
Author : StratusBen
Score : 53 points
Date : 2021-10-26 19:17 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| itisit wrote:
| Your docs use the term "master" in regards to AWS accounts in
| some places [0]. FWIW many companies, AWS included, prefer
| alternate words for various reasons [1]. You may want to match
| the language for clarity.
|
| [0] https://docs.vantage.sh/connecting/
|
| [1]
| https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/o...
| StratusBen wrote:
| Thanks for this call-out. I'll personally get this updated this
| evening.
| StratusBen wrote:
| Hi everyone, I'm Co-Founder and CEO of Vantage
|
| We've heard consistently from existing users that they want
| visibility of AWS costs directly where their teams do work: which
| tends to be in Slack for the most part. This integration
| represents us dipping our toes into an integration with Slack.
| Currently you can get either daily, weekly or monthly cost
| reports posted to Slack with a breakdown of each individual AWS
| service.
|
| In the future, we're looking to integrate Slack slash commands in
| for querying information about your AWS account as well as
| comparing information found on http://ec2instances.info/ which we
| acquired earlier this year. We've also got some things cooking
| around automated alerts and cost anomaly detections.
|
| This is a pretty straight-forward launch but happy to answer any
| questions :)
| picardo wrote:
| What would you say is the advantage of Vantage over AWS's
| Billing Dashboard?[1] I can configure it to send me daily
| reports and notifications if the costs exceed my daily
| threshold already. Why do I need Vantage?
|
| ----
|
| [1] https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing
| StratusBen wrote:
| Good question. There are a number of things already at the
| moment and the list keeps growing:
|
| - Vantage gives you per-resource costs for every AWS resource
| broken down by category and subcategory without the need for
| you to tag anything. This feature is named Advanced Analytics
| and allows you to see costs for all AWS resources like Lambda
| Functions, SQS Queues, SNS Topics, S3 Buckets, etc. You can
| see more here: https://www.vantage.sh/features/advanced-
| analytics
|
| - Vantage has Kubernetes service level cost support. We can
| show you the cost of each individual K8S service by looking
| at lifecycle events and cross-referencing with underlying EC2
| costs. You can see more here:
| https://www.vantage.sh/features/kubernetes
|
| - Cost Recommendations: Vantage will give you not only ways
| to optimize your costs within the confines of your AWS
| account but also make third party recommendations in the best
| interest of your business....AWS will never do this. Here's
| an example of our Cloudflare cost recommendation:
| https://www.vantage.sh/blog/cloudflare-specific-cost-
| recomme...
|
| - Ease of use. We've heard consistent customer feedback that
| most people don't enjoy using AWS billing related tools, APIs
| or even raw data from Cost and Usage Reports as its hard to
| use and unintuitive. We have focused really hard on developer
| experience and ease of use.
|
| Vantage has also only been generally available since January
| of this year...we have a lot more planned for the future and
| this list will grow.
| itisit wrote:
| If I may add on, what does Vantage give me above and beyond
| AWS Billing Dashboard and AWS Cost Explorer?
| liorben-david wrote:
| Did you use Groq or some kind of live test environment to
| develop the slack app or use their new websockets
| functionality? Also where are you hosting your Slack app?
| pistoriusp wrote:
| If anyone from Vantage is listening, discord integration would be
| awesome!
| StratusBen wrote:
| Hey there! Co-Founder and CEO of Vantage here.
|
| We're listening. Happy to get this added as an option :)
| gagejustins wrote:
| This is great, now I can know how much money I'm losing _all the
| time_!
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| adamqureshi wrote:
| ok but I'm on azure. :-(
| AstroDogCatcher wrote:
| ":-(" indeed.
| quesera wrote:
| PRICING LINK: https://www.vantage.sh/pricing
|
| Link in header does not work for me, but I might be special. Link
| in footer works.
|
| Original (misleading) comment follows:
|
| --------------------------
|
| Vantage brings you visibility into AWS pricing? Interesting!
|
| But Vantage hides Vantage pricing behind a login? Erm.
|
| (I'm willing to accept the possibility that I just haven't
| granted the page adequate permissions, but four external sites
| should be enough for anyone.)
| StratusBen wrote:
| Vantage pricing is publicly available here:
| https://www.vantage.sh/pricing
|
| Is that what you're looking for?
| quesera wrote:
| Yep, that's great.
|
| The "Pricing" link in the header takes me to a login page.
| Maybe it's just me.
| StratusBen wrote:
| What browser are you using? Both Chrome and Safari seem
| fine to me on desktop and mobile for pricing links in the
| header and footer.
| quesera wrote:
| Firefox here. With some content blocking, but
| progressively disabled before I posted my initial
| comment.
|
| If I make my viewport wider, the "Pricing" and "Login"
| links are further apart, and hovering "Pricing" no longer
| highlights "Login" (but clicking the non-highlighted
| "Pricing" does nothing).
|
| Might be a float or z-axis issue compounded by viewport
| width and content blocking side effects?
| jjice wrote:
| Pricing link is at the bottom of the page. Not as clear as in
| the header, but still a fairly common place to see it.
| [deleted]
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