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Any plans to extend this to other cloud providers like Azure and GCS?
I'm not sure why I would want to use this instead of Amazon's built in tools?
The longer answer is that, although Amazon does provide many tools, as I'm sure anyone who has attempted to use them for cost analysis and/or forecasting has found, they are, at best, difficult (i.e. require a remarkable amount of human labor to extract the desired information, if that's even possible). At worst, one discovers that it's impossible to find out what one truly wants from the tool, even after exerting the effort, although it might be a close approximation. Amazon has little incentive to spend money improving a tool that would help their customers send them less revenue.
I'm not sure why I would want to use this instead of Amazon's built in tools?
AWS Trusted Advisor is a pretty awesome tool! However, it's only available to companies paying for Business or Enterprise level support (3-10% of your monthly bill).
This isn't a tool for everyone, but we hope that it provides enough value for some folks.
Some tips to improve the website (Last time I did this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16621584 ): Make the header's height larger. It's very, unusually small, compared to the vast majority of the internet. At least add some top/bottom padding. Please work on the contrast of the "Start Free Trial" buttons, they are hard to read. Use or configure your header/menu font better. On chrome, windows 10 it's ugly: http…
Thanks! This is very useful feedback and definitely a lot of good points. I'll be sure to return those borders back to 2005! It definitely wasn't the intended design. I'll need to do some more testing on Windows. :)
Do 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. CloudForecast is a passion project designed to deliver the value of enterprise level AWS monitoring to startups and midsize compani…
I'm not sure why I would want to use this instead of Amazon's built in tools?
The short answer is alignment of incentives. The longer answer is that, although Amazon does provide many tools, as I'm sure anyone who has attempted to use them for cost analysis and/or forecasting has found, they are, at best, difficult (i.e. require a remarkable amount of human labor to extract the desired information, if that's even possible). At worst, one discovers that it's impossible to find out what one trul…
I completely agree.
I tried out that complicated as hell calculator, and found that for a lot of fields I was just inputting numbers, with no idea what I was doing.
I think the Cloud Formation price predictor thing is pretty useful for a Cloud Formation script. But I'm new to Cloud Formation and probably won't use it b/c it may be too complex for my needs and I don't know what I'm doing.
Do 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. CloudForecast is a passion project designed to deliver the value of enterprise level AWS monitoring to startups and midsize compani…
I haven't had the time to try this. But my issue with built-in AWS forecast is it'll be totally inaccurate once Reserved Instance come into play. Does CloudForecast solve this issue?