[StratusBen]

https://instances.vantage.sh/ recently added alerts for any pricing changes on EC2, including newly launching new instances. The site rebuilds every 4 hours so it usually breaks the pricing news first. I have it on for myself and its super helpful just to see when AWS changes things.

[Disclaimer, I'm CEO of Vantage - the company that maintains the site]

[999900000999]

Are the built in AWS cost monitoring tools so bad that multiple businesses( including yours) exist just to monitor cost externally ?

Or is your value proposition for companies that use a bunch of different cloud providers ?

[StratusBen]

[Not a sales pitch - just answering the questions]

This AWS EC2 site is just an open-source project and site we maintain for the benefit of the community. So it's not directly our business but it promotes our brand and is just a helpful site that I think should exist. It's very popular and has been around for about 15 years now.

Our main business hosted on the main domain of https://www.vantage.sh/ is around cloud cost management across 25 different providers (AWS, Azure, Datadog, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) and the use-cases there about carving up one bill and showing specific costs back to engineers for them to be held accountable to, take action on, etc. Cloud costs and their impact on companies' margins is a big enough problem for vendors like us to exist and we're one player in a larger market.

[999900000999]

No shame in a sales pitch as long as it's transparent!

I think I see the value here. In any large organization seeing where 100% of your cloud spending is going becomes a time consuming task unto itself.

[jolan]

FYI, it's been almost two years since us-east-1-chi-2 launched and it's still missing on the site. Any reason for this? Kind of feels like local zones are a 2nd class citizen even at AWS itself.

Thank you for maintaining this, I do use it every few months at $DAYJOB and it's quite useful for my capacity/deployment planning.

[StratusBen]

Huh...weird. I just looked into this and we do have us-east-1-chi-1....but not chi-2. It appears that chi-2 isn't being returned at all as part of the bulk pricing API from AWS for some reason. We'll see if we can dig deeper on why that's the case but just wanted to let you know that's the root issue from our end.

[infberg]

Hey, big fan of the vantage instance finder. Would it be possible to add instance type labels similar to what AWS calls them on their website - "storage-optimized", "general-purpose" etc.?

I find this often useful to quickly compare similar instance types, e.g.: m7g vs. m8g vs. m9g.

[StratusBen]

Good feedback! Having someone on our team get this completed for you.

[whalesalad]

Can you open source the code so I can fix bugs

[StratusBen]

It's been open-source for 10+ years and the repo is linked in the top right of the site. Here's a link: https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info

We'd greatly appreciate contributions!