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by aytekin 2474 days ago
Here is a startup idea for grabbing: Make a better interface for AWS/Google Cloud.

Since their APIs covers everything this should be possible. Be the first UXaaS.

A killer feature: a server by server breakdown of Google Cloud expenses. It is impossible to understand what you are paying for on Google Cloud. They lump everything together in an incredibly confusing bill.

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Hmm sounds like you're missing out on the Billing > Reports or Billing > Cost breakdown sections of GCP Console's Billing section. In Reports it does exactly what you want when you group by SKU in the Filters

Incidentally a UI startup for AWS/Google Cloud is an incredibly bad idea. You're just a sitting duck waiting to be killed, and also you have no full control over the API.

I tried, but many APIs accessible to these front end are not publicly available.

For example, listing API keys for a given project.

By the way, how much would you be willing to pay for such a UI?

I think that's why DigitalOcean is winning so much these days.
Imagine if DO had lambda.