[StratusBen]

:wave:

I'm a Co-Founder at https://vantage.sh/ - thanks for posting this, Jeff!

I think the biggest call out here is that Vantage Cost Saving Recommendations are profiling not only things like AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instances but we are also directly integrated with AWS Service APIs that allow us to surface higher-fidelity cost-savings measures on a per AWS service or resource basis. Over time, we will be adding to the suite of checks and recommendations.

Also, it's worth calling out that these recommendations are available to all users -- including users in our free tier.

I'm happy to answer any questions if folks have them.

[dfabulich]

Vantage should provide a date saying when exactly the recommendations were computed. This answer from the FAQ kinda sucks.

> I am a Vantage user but I don't see any Cost Recommendations. What is happening?

> There are two possible things causing this: (1) Vantage has not yet run the process for finding cost recommendations for your account yet and you can check back later (2) your account is well-optimized from an AWS cost perspective and there are no recommendations for you to review.

> In either case, Vantage will continue to monitor your AWS account for all changes and be sure to surface Cost Recommendations to you as it finds them.

"Maybe we'll provide useful guidance, maybe we won't, but we won't tell you which. Maybe you're perfect. Maybe we never ran an analysis. Maybe we'll run an analysis in the future, maybe not."

[StratusBen]

Thanks for your candid feedback - I agree this is something we should do a better job of surfacing. I've added this to our backlog to improve - feel free to email me and I can let you know when the experience improves.

We mention elsewhere in the post that for service and resource level recommendations we do this as often as your Vantage account syncs - which you can initiate at any time from the top navigation bar.

For recommendations like Savings Plans and Reserved Instances we are running this process weekly for now but that may change so we will definitely add a timestamp as to when that occurs.

[GiorgioG]

How did you guys decide on your pricing plans? It seems to me you're missing out on the folks who's spending doesn't vary much per month but want to get their costs optimized. I have a friend who's company is spending ~70k/month on AWS who might be interested in this, but doesn't generally need it on an ongoing basis since their needs are generally fixed.

[Thristle]

Are these recommendations from the cost & usage report? just normal API queries?

If it is just from normal API (probably list instance/lb), is it really enough in order to create proper recommendations?

do you have an estimate on the cost/usage you are adding for each scale of customer?

[deevus]

I was already able to decommission $160USD a month of infrastructure after 5 minutes on the platform. Thanks!

Is it possible to set up a billing email? I would rather not have to forward the invoices every month.

[StratusBen]

That's fantastic! If you email [e-mail] we can update the billing email manually now in advance of us launching RBAC for team-members on your Vantage account.

Prior to contacting support, please just invite your team-mate to your Vantage account from the account settings page.