Show HN: CloudForecast.io – Daily email report to help you monitor your AWS cost
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Re: Show HN: CloudForecast.io – Daily email report to help you monitor your AWS cost
#2Do you need a lightweight and affordable AWS cost monitoring tool? CloudForecast is a daily email report that breaks down your AWS spend, allowing you to understand where your money is going. View spend by Products, Tags, and Sub Accounts and quickly know which areas need your attention.
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Re: Show HN: CloudForecast.io – Daily email report to help you monitor your AWS cost
#3We have been using this at Adzerk since an early beta and it's been just what we needed. We used to pay 2% to another cloud pricing company and we were able to cancel that since we started using CloudForecast.io, saving us thousands of dollars a month. If you find yourself not using all the fancy features of the bigger tools, save yourself some money and use this great tool instead.
Re: Show HN: CloudForecast.io – Daily email report to help you monitor your AWS cost
#4This is definitely a problem worth solving, and this looks like a nice solution.
I like the use of weather as an at-a-glance shorthand. This is something I'd be looking at every day, and the faster I can glean the information the better. Can you share a little more about what might make things "stormy" vs. "clear"?
Also, just out of curiosity, what's your tech stack look like?
Re: Show HN: CloudForecast.io – Daily email report to help you monitor your AWS cost
#5We have been using this at Adzerk since an early beta and it's been just what we needed. We used to pay 2% to another cloud pricing company and we were able to cancel that since we started using CloudForecast.io, saving us thousands of dollars a month. If you find yourself not using all the fancy features of the bigger tools, save yourself some money and use this great tool instead.
I second the need for "simpler" solutions like this. At Perfect Audience (where I worked with the CloudForecast team!) we spent a lot on AWS and used vendors to help monitor the spend. Because these vendors were venture backed, they needed to charge a lot of money. To justify charging that much money they needed to build a lot of features...when all we really wanted was a good email each day to alert us if something was awry.
Re: Show HN: CloudForecast.io – Daily email report to help you monitor your AWS cost
#6This is definitely a problem worth solving, and this looks like a nice solution. I like the use of weather as an at-a-glance shorthand. This is something I'd be looking at every day, and the faster I can glean the information the better. Can you share a little more about what might make things "stormy" vs. "clear"? Also, just out of curiosity, what's your tech stack look like?
The "Sunny"/"Cloudy"/"Stormy" is based on the personalized threshold (E.g 10% increase compared to yesterday). The alerts can be set for your overall AWS spend but also at the Product (EC2, RDS), Region and Tags level.
For our tech stack, we are mostly using AWS Lambda with the Serverless.com framework. We were able to get off the ground quickly while keeping the cost down
Re: Show HN: CloudForecast.io – Daily email report to help you monitor your AWS cost
#7Awesome job, Kacy!
Re: Show HN: CloudForecast.io – Daily email report to help you monitor your AWS cost
#8We have been using this at Doximity for a while now it is excellent. The daily reports and clear indicators of increase/decrease are helpful to identify spikes at a glance.
Re: Show HN: CloudForecast.io – Daily email report to help you monitor your AWS cost
#9Looks great, would love and use something like this for GCP
Re: Show HN: CloudForecast.io – Daily email report to help you monitor your AWS cost
#10Looks great, would love and use something like this for GCP
Google Cloud actually has some good new graphs (they are under billing => reports). Additionally they offer a monthly billing overview e-mail which you should already be receiving.