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

[kamrani]

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.

[agencies]

There is definitely demand and folks are willing to pay:

https://www.duckbillgroup.com/

https://www.vantage.sh/

[kamrani]

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

[BaconPackets]

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.

[kamrani]

Cloudability is not an option for small companies.

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

[anirudhmurali]

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

[devKnight]

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

[kamrani]

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.

[throw03172019]

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

[kamrani]

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

[ev1]

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

[kamrani]

yup, that can be an option.

[altdataseller]

Most observability tools like datadog already do this.

[AishwaryaVenkat]

Similarly, Atatus Infrastructure monitoring has been nice for us

[kamrani]

Their recommendations is very basic though.

[altdataseller]

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.