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Comment by davidjgraph | Hacker News Reader

Looks pretty, anyone know how it compares to Cloudcraft[0]?

Interesting to make it a desktop application and then subscription based.

I found the pricing structure a little unnatural, though. The 5k-10k band seems quite narrow and the way the AWS spend is the first idea makes it seem a little like "we want a % cut of your AWS spend". This might well be true, I'd just be a little more delicate about it :).

[0] https://cloudcraft.co

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% of AWS spend is, in my experience (CTO level stuff,) fairly common for AWS ecosystem vendors. It isn't a terrible proxy for complexity of deployment AND is easy for customer to calculate.

Indeed that's how NewRelic seems to have repositioned their infrastructure monitoring. Instead of paying per server, you now pay per server * server capacity.

The major difference I see on a glance is that cloudcraft would need your architecture diagram to be hosted at their service and folks working there can probably see it if they want to, compared to Cloudcraft where it's running locally and no one (as long as you're not compromised) can see it.

Important change if you have sensitive infrastructure you want to keep as secret as possible.

The platform doesn't only show the AWS. You can also take action on the resources by double-clicking on it.

You can even visualize cost on top of your resources too.

It is real time.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll take it up ASAP with the team.

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