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Apptio

Company blog · blog.cloudability.combusinesssystems

Apptio is the company blog at blog.cloudability.com, writing about business and systems. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.

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2012–2019first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 12 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Cloudability's blog for AWS cost material, including S3 request pricing and how egress charges can be broken down with tags.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. It obviously depends on how many files we are talking about but copying files to a new bucket in the same region will not cost that much. You could definitely make the case to AWS that you don't want to pay since they are removing a feature and you might get a concession. $0.005 / 1,000 copy requests... ref: https://blog.cloudability.com/aws-s3-understanding-cloud-sto... Also you will likely want to use some sort of…

    Comment linking /aws-s3-understanding-cloud-storage-costs-to-save/

    on “Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests”
  2. Submitted IT Consumerization: The end of IT is nigh as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  3. Egress charges leverage tags now. You can get down to good detail. Here's an image showing it will use tags if you set them: https://blog.cloudability.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/dat... In this case, a service tag, set in some cases, not in others.

    Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2017/02/data-transfer-costs-4-768x167.png

    on “AWS costs every programmer should know”
  4. Submitted Keeping your Javascript clean as a story · 13 points

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  5. Submitted Three ops lessons you should learn before your next outage as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Another AWS Outage: Six Questions You’re Likely to Get From Your Boss as a story · 9 points

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  7. Submitted Try out these three simple resolutions to help manage your AWS usage in 2013. as a story · 4 points

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  8. Submitted Managing Technical Debt ... with Fire as a story · 4 points

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  9. Submitted What you need to know about blended rates on AWS as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted Cloud costs join your most salient KPIs with Cloudability's Geckoboard widget as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Cloudability is about to get 24x more awesome for AWS users as a story · 3 points

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  12. Submitted Top good reasons that you’re not (just) using the Cloud as a story · 3 points

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  13. Submitted The future of the Cloud as a story · 3 points

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  14. Submitted Eight ways to lower your DynamoDB costs as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted AWS Elastic Load Balancers are now taggable as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted The Simian Army wants you ... to save some money on AWS. as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Five benefits of the cloud that have nothing to do with costs as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted 3 year reserved instances are better value than you think as a story · 1 points

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  19. Submitted Announcing Cloudability Multi User Support as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Working at a Startup as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Cloudability closes an $8.7 million Series A round as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Cloud ops lessons you should learn before your next outage as a story · 1 points

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