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StratusBen

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About StratusBen

Co-Founder of http://vantage.sh/ - a cloud cost visibility platform.

Previously product @ AWS on container services, product lead for compute @ DigitalOcean.

I love infrastructure - please feel free to contact me at ben@vantage.sh

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    Back in my day we called this Savings Plans ;) Really excited to see this from OpenAI though.

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    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 globall…

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    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 l…

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    Show HN: LLM Price to Performance Tool

    tldr: We launched https://vantage.sh/models - a price to performance comparison tool for LLMs. If you're familiar with ec2instances.info....this is basically the LLM version of tha…

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    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 l…

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    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 l…

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    Good feedback! Having someone on our team get this completed for you.

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    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…

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    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 cont…

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    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 …

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    [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 …

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    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 th…

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    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 l…

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    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 cover…

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    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 age…

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    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 l…

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    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 y…

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    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 c…

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    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, Ri…

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    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 spe…

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    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, Ri…

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    Show HN: Ec2instances.info alerts for AWS pricing changes

    :wave: Our team recently launched the ability for you to be alerted about AWS pricing changes for existing EC2 instances as well as alerts for new instances being launched and what…