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Ask HN: Would you pay for a service that reduces your cloud costs?

6 pointskamrani15 comments

Would you pay for a service that gives you full-visibility over your cloud costs and gives you AI-powered recommendations to reduce the costs?

The visibility, budget control and recommendations will be far beyond what cloud providers give you out of the box.

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There is definitely demand and folks are willing to pay:

https://www.duckbillgroup.com/

https://www.vantage.sh/

Thanks for sharing the links. Is this something you'd be interested in as well?

This is a very competitive space. You don't hear about a specific leader because there are so many pretty good options.

They mostly do everything you describe and more.

Cloudability is one.

Cloudability is not an option for small companies.

Can you please mention a few of them that are good options in your view?

Are you looking for GCP/AWS? Check out Economize - https://www.economize.cloud/

i'm pretty sure something like that exists, i'm not saying don't build it, but there does seem to be a market for it

There are very basic solutions or some solutions that target only enterprises with hefty bills.

Also, clearly nothing has been good enough that everyone knows about it or uses it.

I saw one recently here that you pay a percentage of what they help you save.

Always there is competition, but are you willing to use such a service if the pricing is reasonable?

only if i get something out of it. no cost if i don't save anything?

yup, that can be an option.

Most observability tools like datadog already do this.

Their recommendations is very basic though.

Its good enough and is 95% of the way there. This is a feature within a tool, IMO and particularly an observability one, as it needs to monitor all existing cloud services.

Similarly, Atatus Infrastructure monitoring has been nice for us

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