StratusBen

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Show HN: OpenRouter Provider Economics
2 points by StratusBen 21d ago|0 comments
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Allocating OpenRouter Costs(vantage.sh)
1 points by StratusBen 1mo ago|0 comments
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by StratusBen 4mo ago
Back in my day we called this Savings Plans ;) Really excited to see this from OpenAI though.
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Token Budgeting: How to Think About AI Cost Control(vantage.sh)
1 points by StratusBen 4mo ago|0 comments
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by StratusBen 5mo ago
Vantage | Founding Solutions Architect / FDE | NYC and Remote | Full Time Vantage is an a16z-backed FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Canva, Temporal, Rippling, FanDuel,
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by StratusBen 6mo ago
Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time Vantage is an a16z-backed FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Vercel, Temporal, Rippling, FanDuel, Ci
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Show HN: LLM Price to Performance Tool
2 points by StratusBen 7mo ago|0 comments
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by StratusBen 7mo ago
Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time Vantage is an a16z-backed FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Vercel, Temporal, Rippling, FanDuel, Ci
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AI Cost Considerations Every Engineer Should Know(vantage.sh)
1 points by StratusBen 8mo ago|0 comments
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by StratusBen 8mo ago
Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time Vantage is an a16z-backed FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Vercel, Temporal, Rippling, FanDuel, Ci
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by StratusBen 9mo ago
Good feedback! Having someone on our team get this completed for you.
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by StratusBen 9mo ago
Huh...weird. I just looked into this and we do have us-east-1-chi-1....but not chi-2. It appears that chi-2 isn't being returned at all as part of the bulk pricing API from AWS for some reason. We'll see if we can dig deeper on wh
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by StratusBen 9mo ago
It's been open-source for 10+ years and the repo is linked in the top right of the site. Here's a link: https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info We'd greatly appreciate contributions!
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by StratusBen 9mo ago
Founder of Vantage here and former AWS employee. We actually recently made the decision to staff someone full time on the site just to maintain it for the community. Even the JSON file for the site gets hit hundreds of thousands of times pe
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by StratusBen 9mo ago
[Not a sales pitch - just answering the questions] This AWS EC2 site is just an open-source project and site we maintain for the benefit of the community. So it's not directly our business but it promotes our brand and is just a helpfu
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by StratusBen 9mo ago
https://instances.vantage.sh/ recently added alerts for any pricing changes on EC2, including newly launching new instances. The site rebuilds every 4 hours so it usually breaks the pricing news first. I have it on for myse
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by StratusBen 10mo ago
Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time Vantage is an a16z-backed FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Vercel, Temporal, Rippling, FanDuel, Ci
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by StratusBen 10mo ago
Evergreen relevant blog post: "Save by Using Anything Other Than a NAT Gateway" https://www.vantage.sh/blog/nat-gateway-vpc-endpoint-savings Also as a shameless plug: Vantage covers this is exact type of cost
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by StratusBen 10mo ago
Working on https://www.vantage.sh/ Specifically working on our FinOps agent which can identify and remediate cloud infa cost related issues across AWS, Azure, Datadog, etc. The agent lives in Slack and surfaces cost savings
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by StratusBen 11mo ago
Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time Vantage is an a16z-backed FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Vercel, Temporal, Rippling, FanDuel, Ci
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by StratusBen 11mo ago
Co-Founder and CEO of https://vantage.sh/ here - I've been pretty impressed by the rate that repatriation is happening off of public cloud. It rarely ever came up and in the last year it's been popping up more and
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by StratusBen 11mo ago
Working on the Vantage FinOps Agent: https://www.vantage.sh/features/vantage-finops-agent An agent that plugs into Slack and helps companies identify and remediate infrastructure cost-related issues.
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by StratusBen 1y ago
Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time Vantage is a FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Rippling, FanDuel, CircleCI, etc manage their infras
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by StratusBen 1y ago
We just launched an MCP for getting data from the dataset behind EC2instances.info. This includes both pricing as well as specification data from the site including: - Hardware specs (CPU, memory, storage, networking) - Pricing (on-demand,
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Show HN: MCP for Ec2instances.info(instances-mcp.vantage.sh)
6 points by StratusBen 1y ago|1 comments
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by StratusBen 1y ago
Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time Vantage is a FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Rippling, FanDuel, CircleCI, etc manage their infras
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Show HN: Ec2instances.info alerts for AWS pricing changes
3 points by StratusBen 1y ago|0 comments
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by StratusBen 1y ago
Look at the early days of AWS vs recent years. The fact that AWS services have been basically flat since 2019 in a high-inflation environment is actually pretty dang good on a relative basis.
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by StratusBen 1y ago
I started https://www.vantage.sh/ - a cloud cost platform that tracks Infra & AI spend. The $100k/dev/year figure feels like sticker shock math more than reality. Yes, AI bills are growing fast - but most team
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by StratusBen 1y ago
The http://ec2instances.info/ of the LLM era ;)

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