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Cast AI
Company blog · cast.ai/blogsystemsbusiness
Cast AI is the company blog at cast.ai, writing about systems and business. Since 2021, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 74 times, most often “Show HN: Free cloud security insights for Kubernetes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Cast AI's blog for cloud cost topics: a post on how its read-only agent works, and tips on choosing AWS instance types and using spot instances.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Cast AI continuously optimizes Kubernetes and the resources beneath it. Start read-only, automate when you’re ready, and verify the results in production.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Free cloud security insights for Kubernetes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-15
- Cast: Multiple Clouds. One Cluster2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-04
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-06
What Hacker News says?
You could also try CAST AI - savings report is free so you don't need to sign any contract to see how much you could save. For some users ie we've saved 90% - $124k/mo cloud cost. Feel free to play around https://cast.ai/
Comment linking /
on “Show HN: Vantage Autopilot – Save on AWS EC2 Costs”Submitted EKS Security Checklist: 10 Best Practices for a Secure Cluster as a story · 78 points
HN discussionSince most of our founders are with cyber sec background or passion, its all thought out and you can read about it more here - https://cast.ai/blog/how-does-the-read-only-cast-ai-agent-wo...
Comment linking /blog/how-does-the-read-only-cast-ai-agent-work-and-what-data-can-it-read/
on “Ask HN: How do you control your inflating AWS bill?”Submitted Cloud Pricing Comparison: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud Platform in 2022 as a story · 67 points
HN discussion[DISCLAIMER] I work for CAST AI Hey there, I know clouds and their bills might be hectic.. Even though a lot of information in your case is lacking, here are a few tips for you to consider: -Get to know the AWS instances, their types and find the ones that could do the the same job - but better. Here at CAST we benchmarked a lot of instances and select the best ones for you. -Reconsider spot instances - as "advertis…
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on “Ask HN: How do you control your inflating AWS bill?”Submitted What does 2022 have in store for cybersecurity and cloud security specialists? as a story · 60 points
HN discussionI'm biased, but most likely you could reduce your cloud costs around 63%. Would suggest to run savings report at https://cast.ai (it's free) and see where you could end, maybe you will be able to implement some recommendations by your own not activating platform.
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on “Show HN: Load Testing with Playwright”Submitted Kubernetes Cordon: How It Works and When to Use It as a story · 46 points
HN discussionGKE is on the roadmap and coming in a few months with UI, but we already have it running in the backend, so feel free to contact us/book a demo https://cast.ai/eks-optimizer
Comment linking /eks-optimizer
on “Show HN: Amazon EKS Optimizer – a platform to analyze and reduce AWS costs”Submitted What Is Kubernetes HPA and How Can It Help You Save on the Cloud? as a story · 35 points
HN discussionHi HN! Excited to share this with you. If you've tried using EKS or other managed Kubernetes platforms native to the cloud provider, you know how the story goes. It's easy to set up and use, but there's not much consideration to how much will it all cost. What we've built at CAST AI is a platform that both analyzes and optimizes your compute resources on EKS clusters. The process goes like this: 1. You connect your…
Comment linking /eks-optimizer
on “Show HN: Amazon EKS Optimizer – a platform to analyze and reduce AWS costs”Submitted Kubernetes Security: 10 Best Practices from the Industry and Community as a story · 31 points
HN discussion[Disclaimer - I'm CAST AI team member] Our savings report is completely free and it takes less than 3 minutes to get the report. To be completely truthful, you could cut your bill 40%+ with the information from it alone. We have some use cases when saved 30-40% on top of what users were saving with spot. Feel free analyze your cluster and see potential savings https://cast.ai/eks-optimizer/
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on “Cast AI vs. Spot.io: Two approaches to automated cloud cost optimization”Submitted Cloud pricing comparison: AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud in 2021 as a story · 31 points
HN discussionSubmitted Free Plug-and-Play Kubernetes Cost Monitoring as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startup Survival Guide for 2022:Tips from A16Z, Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Amazon EKS Optimizer – a platform to analyze and reduce AWS costs as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Convince Your Dev Team That Cloud Cost Management Is Important? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted AKS Security: 10 Proven Tactics for Securing Your Kubernetes Clusters as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Azure Pricing: What You Need to Know as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cast AI vs. Spot.io: Two approaches to automated cloud cost optimization as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Cast AI built EKS Optimizer – platform to analyze and reduce AWS costs as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS EKS vs. ECS vs. Fargate vs. Kops: Where to Manage Your Kubernetes in 2022? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Free cloud security insights for Kubernetes as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: We've built FREE cloud cost monitoring module for K8s as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Migrate from ECS to EKS and the #1 Trick to Make EKS Easier as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Cast AI raises $10M Series A and extends support to top 3 cloud vendors as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS EKS vs. ECS vs. Fargate: Where to Manage Your Kubernetes? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kubernetes Cost Monitoring: 3 Metrics You Need to Track ASAP as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS Karpenter – Is the AWS Open Source Kubernetes Autoscaler Right for You? as a story · 4 points
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