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Re: Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?

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Post by still_grokking » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 11:42 AM UTC

philliphaydon wrote: post #128

rumanator wrote: post #127

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> So what you’re saying is because developers can’t control what they build they need to be stuck with services that limit what they can do so they don’t end up with big bills. No, I'm pointing you the fact that developers are able to do exactly what they want with less work and far cheaper by simply moving away from AWS and picking pretty much any vendor. Why do you have a hard time understanding what others are tel…

Rubbish, you're saying that it's impossible to run on cloud cheaply. Therefore no one should use cloud for any reason. "I don't know how to use cloud so cloud is bad"

"You're holding it wrong!"

Re: Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?

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Post by dspillett » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 1:53 PM UTC

tarun_anand wrote: post #51

kkielhofner wrote: post #9

AWS/clouds aren't always the best solution for a problem. Often they're the worst (just like any other tool). You don't provide a lot of detail but I imagine at this point you need to get "creative" and move at least some aspect of your operation out of AWS. Some variation of: - Buy some hardware and host it at home/office/etc. - Buy some hardware and put it in a colocation facility. - Buy a lot of hardware and put i…

100% agree. Most public clouds are ripoffs. We have spent 11 years on it and now thrown in the towel. Go for some colocation facility where costs are predictable.

It depends on your use case and internal infrastructure support. A lot of start-ups start on "cloud" when they have unpredictable needs and little immediate cash for kit & sys-admins (to manage more than the bare servers: backups and monitoring and other tasks that a cloud arrangement will offer the basics of at least, will need to be managed by you or a paid 3rd party on your kit). Later when things have settled they can move to more static kit and make a saving in cost at the expense of the flexibility (that they no longer need). Or they go hybrid if their product & architecture allows it: own kit for the static work, spreading load out to the cloud if a temporary boost of CPU/GPU/similar power is needed (this works best for loosely-coupled compute-intensive workloads, which may be the case here depending on exactly what they are trying to get out of ML and what methods & datasets are involved).

Re: Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?

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Post by kavehkhorram » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 5:05 PM UTC

Disclosure: I am the founder of Usage.ai

The product my team works on, www.usage.ai, automates the process of finding AWS savings using ML (through reserved instances, savings plans, spots, and rightsizing). Every recommendation is shown on a sleek webpage (we spent a lot of resources on UX).

We haven't fully explored the ML use case, but I'd love to figure out how we can help you drive down the costs associated with your GPU models. Would you have 15 minutes this week for a discussion?

If you're interested, you can reach me at kaveh@usage.ai

Re: Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?

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Post by dandandans » Wed, Jul 15, 2020, 6:36 PM UTC

atsaloli wrote: post #87

beardface wrote: post #30

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Came here to recommend you! Your newsletter always provides both enlightenment and a giggle.

I came here to recommend QuinnyPig's services as well. He's a pro at reducing AWS costs.

Corey Quinn (Quinnypig) at Duckbill Group would be my suggestion as well.