Hey HN: I'm Kaveh, the founder of Usage
(https://www.usage.ai/)
We help companies drive down AWS costs. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. Stakeholders, especially engineers, are required to spend unnecessary time manually finding underutilized or overly expensive EC2s. We believe the optimization process should be done automatically through a series of sophisticated algorithms.
At the moment, there are over 70,000 AWS EC2 prices - doing that manually just won't scale at most organizations. My background is in software engineering.
Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a software engineer at a number of smaller startups.
Here's how it works: We are typically hired by the head of engineering or the CFO. Usage analyzes your cloud usage at 5-minute increments to find cost reduction opportunities. You'll see up-front savings within minutes, and then we'll continue to email you additional savings we find that you can approve or deny.
You can register for free, then charge 20% of savings.
Have you experienced any issues with managing your company or organization's AWS expenses? We'd love to hear your feedback and ideas!
Here's a demo video https://www.loom.com/share/79f88ab43f58484181d86dc6b918813a
