[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.
 
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