Price to Performance Considerations for EC2 Generational Upgrades
Newer generation EC2 instances not only give you better performance but oftentimes represent a significant decrease in price. In many cases...
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Profiling 25,000 S3 Buckets: The Billion Dollar Opportunity for Cloudflare R2
Cloudflare's recent announcement for their S3 competitor, cleverly named R2, has been a major point of discussion in the infrastructure community. While there has been a lot of chatter, Cloudflare R2 still isn't generally
Save 20% on EBS Costs by Migrating from GP2 to GP3
Spending money on public cloud infrastructure isn't a bad thing - but spending wasteful money definitely is. AWS is known for consistently releasing not only new features but also adding updates to existing products. In December of...
Using CloudFormation StackSets to Onboard Hundreds of Member AWS Accounts
In the previous post we talked about how Vantage quickly and securely connects to users' AWS accounts. Immediately after connecting the root account the user can see all their cost data and begin exploring Cost...
S3 Intelligent Tiering Pricing and Potential Cost Savings
Amazon S3 offers a service named S3 Intelligent-Tiering that has the potential to save you money by shifting S3 objects between various S3 storage classes on your behalf. However, there are accompanying fees and use...
How Vantage Uses Cross-Account IAM Roles to Securely Connect to Customer AWS Accounts
From the beginning of Vantage we have had the need to connect to our customer's AWS accounts to interact with AWS services, ingest cost data and potentially take actions on resources within their...
Tracking Infrastructure Costs for Startups
As cloud infrastructure service offerings have grown from a small set of services like virtual machines, object storage and networking primitives to an la carte menu of hundreds of services, maintaining visibility into what services you're using and paying for can be a job...
AWS Fargate Pricing Explained
AWS Fargate simplifies your life by not having to manage the underlying infrastructure, but this benefit comes at a premium. We'll discuss the pricing impact of using Fargate relative to a self-managed EC2 cluster.
How to See S3 Bucket Storage Types and Storage Costs
In our previous post about S3, we showed how to view request metrics, egress and accompanying costs and we're back again to show a breakdown of S3 storage types.