This is a godsend. We're running multiple accounts and different regions on AWS, and I believe Vantage will be phenomenal. Excited to use it.
Show HN: Vantage – An alternative AWS console focused on developer experience
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#12I was just thinking the other day whomever does this will be very rich. AWS’ console is the worst.
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#13Everything that AWS offers comes with lots of caveats. I'm happy that good competition from Azure is forcing AWS to simplify some of of their services and make things a bit more straightforward.
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#14Hi HN, Vantage is an alternative to the AWS console focused on developer experience and cost transparency. My background is in public cloud where I was the product lead for DigitalOcean’s Droplet product and at AWS on the container services product management team. Our team is 100% bootstrapped with two technical co-founders and a designer. Vantage is ReadOnly by default and is meant to work alongside your existing a…
Congrats on the product launch, looks a neat UI.
AWS easily has the worst UX of the three major clouds I've used. From that perspective my favourite by far is GCP.
Do you forsee supporting other cloud vendors? I guess there is a lot less demand for others, in terms both of number of users, and also Google and Microsoft UIs are a bit less awful to start with...
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#15Hi HN, Vantage is an alternative to the AWS console focused on developer experience and cost transparency. My background is in public cloud where I was the product lead for DigitalOcean’s Droplet product and at AWS on the container services product management team. Our team is 100% bootstrapped with two technical co-founders and a designer. Vantage is ReadOnly by default and is meant to work alongside your existing a…
How does it handle credentials?
What's the potential for Vantage being hacked and the hackers gaining admin access to your users' AWS accounts?
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#16Within 30 seconds of signing up for Vantage I discovered an old unused EC2 instance I was still paying $17/month for. This made me realize how weirdly hard it is to see a usable cost breakdown by resource on AWS...converted :)
Re: Show HN: Vantage – An alternative AWS console focused on developer experience
#17Hi HN, Vantage is an alternative to the AWS console focused on developer experience and cost transparency. My background is in public cloud where I was the product lead for DigitalOcean’s Droplet product and at AWS on the container services product management team. Our team is 100% bootstrapped with two technical co-founders and a designer. Vantage is ReadOnly by default and is meant to work alongside your existing a…
How does it handle credentials? What's the potential for Vantage being hacked and the hackers gaining admin access to your users' AWS accounts?
The provided CloudFormation stack creates a Cross Account IAM Role with a list of read only permissions. We don't accept access keys or secrets.
- A permissions overview is here (most aren't used for now). This list was made from the AWS-managed IAM policy of "ReadOnlyAccess" but whittled down to remove things like our ability to read from S3 Buckets or Databases: https://docs.vantage.sh/permissions/
- The latest CloudFormation stack is here: https://vantage-public.s3.amazonaws.com/x-account-role-creat...
As for security, we are leveraging best practices learned from our time at AWS and DigitalOcean. Every person on our team has spent time at a public cloud provider and applying what we've learned there to Vantage. We've also been in contact with certain AWS employees to ensure we have proper setups.
Re: Show HN: Vantage – An alternative AWS console focused on developer experience
#18Hi HN, Vantage is an alternative to the AWS console focused on developer experience and cost transparency. My background is in public cloud where I was the product lead for DigitalOcean’s Droplet product and at AWS on the container services product management team. Our team is 100% bootstrapped with two technical co-founders and a designer. Vantage is ReadOnly by default and is meant to work alongside your existing a…
Congrats on the product launch, looks a neat UI. AWS easily has the worst UX of the three major clouds I've used. From that perspective my favourite by far is GCP. Do you forsee supporting other cloud vendors? I guess there is a lot less demand for others, in terms both of number of users, and also Google and Microsoft UIs are a bit less awful to start with...
Thank you! Great question. We are planning on supporting GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean and Heroku in the future and have users who have actively been requesting support for all of them.
Additionally - I think we can build a truly objective cloud console that shouldn't be relegated to just public cloud provider services.
For example: Why can't scale.ai sit alongside ML offerings from AWS and GCP? Why can't Cloudflare see S3 egress and have Vantage facilitate an integration? Why can't you auto-replicate an environment from Heroku or DigitalOcean to AWS/GCP/Azure? These are some ideas we have going forward.
Currently we have multi-account support for AWS and have been thoughtful with our architecture to quickly add other providers going forward so stay tuned :)
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#19I think there needs to be better pricing. I know pricing is hard but there should at least be a call to action if you have much a much bigger spend than what is on the pricing page.
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#20Within 30 seconds of signing up for Vantage I discovered an old unused EC2 instance I was still paying $17/month for. This made me realize how weirdly hard it is to see a usable cost breakdown by resource on AWS...converted :)
This brought such a smile to my face. Thank you for sharing and happy we could help.
A lot Vantage users have the use-case of using Vantage purely for "insurance" of things going awry like this.