Show HN: Cur.vantage.sh – AWS Billing Code Lookup Tool
We're the team behind Vantage and ec2instances.info and wanted to share a new microsite we're launching. We profiled the number of distinct AWS billing codes across our customer base and found that there are about 60,000 unique ones. We hear all the time that people are confused about the billing codes present in Cost Explorer or the Cost and Usage Report. Think of these as being things like “Requests-Tier1” for S3 or “CW:GMWI-Metrics” for CloudWatch. There is usually really limited resources for determining what these billing codes are and the AWS documentation isn't always fully helpful.
Over the span of the last two months, our team decided to build https://cur.vantage.sh/ - a new microsite for looking up these billing codes and attempting to explain in simplistic terms what these billing codes are and how you're charged. We have written content for a number of services and the site is still in progress but we decided to put it live and start getting feedback. Let us know what you think and if there is anything else that can be helpful on a site like this. Please have mercy as we're trying to share this early to get thoughts.