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CloudForecast
Company blog · cloudforecast.io/blogbusinessprogramming
CloudForecast is the company blog at cloudforecast.io, writing about business and programming. Since 2017, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “AWS RDS Pricing and Optimization Guide”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly mention CloudForecast, a tool that sends a daily email report on AWS cost, and link its blog and case-study pages on AWS tagging and cost savings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
CloudForecast helps DevOps, SRE, and Infrastructure leaders avoid AWS and Azure bill shock with daily cost reports delivered to Slack, Teams, and email.
Most-linked posts?
- AWS RDS Pricing and Optimization Guide2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-11-17
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-12
- Building an Event-Driven Pipeline in AWS Using Serverless2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-11
- Using Serverless Reapers to Lower Your AWS Bill2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-02
- Analyzing the Cost of Your Serverless Functions Using Faast.js2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-26
What Hacker News says?
Some tips to improve the website (Last time I did this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16621584 ): Make the header's height larger. It's very, unusually small, compared to the vast majority of the internet. At least add some top/bottom padding. Please work on the contrast of the "Start Free Trial" buttons, they are hard to read. Use or configure your header/menu font better. On chrome, windows 10 it's ugly: htt…
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on “Show HN: CloudForecast.io – Daily email report to help you monitor your AWS cost”Submitted AWS Tagging Best Practices as a story · 129 points
HN discussionShameless plug here. Working on an side hustle to help you monitor and measure your AWS spend: http://www.cloudforecast.io You'll get a daily report that breaks down your cost for you via inbox with weather symbols indicating the health of your cost. Think of this like the weather you check every morning before you start your day. Our forecasting in our report is pretty accurate too! Hit me up if anyone is intereste…
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on “Ask HN: How did you significantly reduce your AWS cost?”Submitted Show HN: CloudForecast.io – Daily email report to help you monitor your AWS cost as a story · 125 points
HN discussionIt's easy to accidentally waste a lot of money on AWS. My company cut our costs from ~20k/month to ~6.5k/month with no degradation of UX or dev velocity. It was all due to unnecessary redundant builds and integration tests and lingering unused resources. We used the CloudForecast service to identify and track costs ( https://cloudforecast.io/ ). An underrated side effect of this service is that making costs visible…
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on “Is the Cloud Recession-Proof?”Submitted AWS Tagging Best Practices: Using Terraform and CloudFormation to Enforce Tags as a story · 63 points
HN discussionImplementing a simple and effective tagging strategy for visibility and monitoring is one of the most important aspect of cloud cost control. From our experience, this is where most of our own users start. Knowing the "why's" and "where" will help everyone within the org (eng and finance) make better decisions on what and where to focus on ( https://www.cloudforecast.io/blog/aws-tagging-best-practices... ). Also, it…
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on “Cloud Cost Control: Best Practices”Submitted Show HN: Monitor Your AWS Cost in Slack as a story · 27 points
HN discussion"Coffee Meets Bagel uses a variety of Amazon Web Services."[1] [1] https://www.cloudforecast.io/success-stories/how-cmb-save-mo...
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on “Coffee Meets Bagel has been down for over two days”Submitted Can you name 10 AWS product logos? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionYoooo. Appreciate the shout-out! I am one of the co-founders and CEO of https://www.cloudforecast.io/ We're a (mostly)bootstrap company, so it's always awesome to hear the "word of mouth" mention of my company. It means we're doing something right :). Feel free to let me know if I can help in any way or answer any questions anyone might have!
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on “Ask HN: What does a newbie need to know in order to avoid AWS cost disasters?”Submitted Using Serverless Reapers to Lower Your AWS Bill as a story · 13 points
HN discussionJust curious... are you using it for a personal project or is it part of a requirement for a role/employment? I've seen this happen: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/w4eo12/usi... I don't have any great pointers unfortunately, though I met someone not too long ago who has a product to help with monitoring AWS costs: https://www.cloudforecast.io/ Disclaimer: I've never used this tool as I don't use A…
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on “Ask HN: What does a newbie need to know in order to avoid AWS cost disasters?”Submitted AWS Tagging Best Practices Part 2: Terraform and CloudFormation as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: AWS Cost Reports Right in Slack with CloudForecast as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Serverless Reapers to Lower Your AWS Bill as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's a Trap! Watch Out for Unexpected S3 Cost When Using AWS Athena as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Parquet on Athena to Save Money on AWS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS ECS Pricing and Container Optimization Guide as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Six Tools to Help Maintain AWS Tags When You Fall Behind as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understand and Optimize Your AWS Data Transfer Costs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using AWS Athena to Convert a CSV File to Parquet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS RDS Pricing and Cost Optimization Guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS RDS Pricing and Optimization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AWS RDS Pricing and Optimization Guide as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maintain AWS Tags When You Fall Behind as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building an Event-Driven Pipeline in AWS Using Serverless as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Analyzing the Cost of Your Serverless Functions Using Faast.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fine Tune Your Lambda Functions with AWS CloudWatch Insights as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chat with Gitlab CEO, Sid: Keys to Developing a Self-Hosted Version of Your App as a story · 2 points
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