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Show HN: Usage 2.0 – Cut AWS Spend by 57% in 5 Minutes
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#12Any plans to launch this product on Google Cloud?
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#13Looks really good. I have been offered large discounts by an AWS reseller, and I have not understood exactly how or why they can do this. Are the resellers doing what you are doing but being less transparent about it?
AWS SPP Resellers actually resell for better prices, see Partner Originated Discounts. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/introducing-new-aws-solutio...
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#14I recently found out that I was overpaying by about 20% by just looking at "Recommendations" tab in AWS Console and buying RIs. It was mostly RDS.
I would love a product that automatically manages the RI renewals (ex. every year) and instance type changes.
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#15I'll reserve your instances for only a 10% savings fee. Or we can do a 20% fee and I'll kick you back 10% cash. Hit me up y'all.
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#16> We buy Reserved Instances on your behalf (a billing layer change only)
> and bundle them with guaranteed buyback.
> .. We make money off of a 20% Savings Fee.
so this is similar business model, like https://archera.ai/guaranteed-reserved-instances/
"Find big-time savings with short-time commitments. Unlike typical commitments, Guaranteed Reserved Instances can be sold back to Archera within a month of initial purchase and with higher savings than standard offerings."
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#17> We buy Reserved Instances on your behalf (a billing layer change only) and bundle them with guaranteed buyback
This is by setting your AWS account as the payer account so you can aggregate? I’m curious how the finances will work out - at least one of them had challenges balancing their RIs with customer changes since there wasn’t a feedback cue for developers not to change instance types casually.
On a marketing level, I have an instinctive negative reaction to the claims like the title here has because I know it’s not true for me (my accounts are dominated by storage and network egress so even if EC2 were free you couldn’t get 57%). I’m wondering how best to phrase it to help people understand they can save a lot but not make it seem like you’re misrepresenting the possibilities. It’d also be useful to compare with compute savings plans.
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#18Looks really good. I have been offered large discounts by an AWS reseller, and I have not understood exactly how or why they can do this. Are the resellers doing what you are doing but being less transparent about it?
In a way. Resellers typically incorporate a company's AWS organization into theirs, and via resource sharing of savings instruments, are able to pass on savings to their customers within their portfolio. Since they have an AWS organization that is comprised of many companies and their AWS accounts, they are able to negotiate special pricing arrangements with AWS (typically in the form of an EDP) based on the total spend of that consolidated organization.
We use similar instruments but allow you to maintain the independence of your AWS organization for what is usually higher savings.
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#19> We buy Reserved Instances on your behalf (a billing layer change only) and bundle them with guaranteed buyback This is by setting your AWS account as the payer account so you can aggregate? I’m curious how the finances will work out - at least one of them had challenges balancing their RIs with customer changes since there wasn’t a feedback cue for developers not to change instance types casually. On a marketing le…
It just depends on what you have. I did get 20% right off the bat with RDS just buying no-upfront RIs. I could have probably gotten around 30% if I did upfront and longer commitment.
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#20I recently found out that I was overpaying by about 20% by just looking at "Recommendations" tab in AWS Console and buying RIs. It was mostly RDS. I would love a product that automatically manages the RI renewals (ex. every year) and instance type changes.
Good to hear. :-)