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by stratified 2161 days ago
[DISCLAIMER] software engineer @ AWS, not working on billing.

Interesting project! This product can unlock a lot of customer savings, and wishing you all the best.

I have a couple of questions:

- Are you focusing on EC2 compute costs or are you focusing on other AWS offerings as well? Curious to see how the savings compare to EC2 compute optimizer [1].

- How is your churn rate? What is the value of your product once a customer optimized their AWS bill?

- Do you have a screencast of your product?

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/

1 comments

1. We're currently focused on EC2s (it's been the largest line item for our first few customers).

2. Rightsizing and spot fleet management keep our users coming back - but our customers get the most value the first month. Almost all of our customers have renewed their subscriptions after the first month so far.

3. I don't know how well the computer optimizer model performs, but we haven't had a customer take a recommendation and regret it later on. For our enterprise plan, we fine-tune our models to a company's historical usage (rather than throw a standardized model at all of our users).

Happy to share a screencast! Feel free to email me if you'd like.