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Taloflow Blog
Company blog · taloflow.ai/blog · on HN as jasonkimtechbusinessstartupsprogramming
Taloflow Blog is the company blog at taloflow.ai, writing about business, startups and programming. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as pages that report whether AWS services are down, by region, such as us-west-2 and us-east-2 status pages. Comments are bare links or pitches for the company, not judgments of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Taloflow is your all-in-one solution to automate the research, comparisons, and reporting for consulting teams enabling tech procurement and deal strategy.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-11
What Hacker News says?
Having done hundreds of TCO analyses for customers moving object storage providers, this seems like it carves out a very interesting niche for Cloudflare. R2's higher storage costs (roughly triple) also make it a more manageable threat to specialized solutions like Storj DCS, Wasabi and Backblaze B2. At Taloflow ( https://www.taloflow.ai ), (disclosure: I'm the CEO/Cofounder) we provide buying insights for cloud obj…
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on “Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees”Submitted Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3? as a story · 392 points
HN discussionSeeing API gateway issues here: https://www.taloflow.ai/is-aws-down/us-west-2
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on “AWS us-west-2 issues”Submitted The ominous opacity of the AWS bill – a cautionary tale as a story · 203 points
HN discussionI'm one of the founders of https://taloflow.ai (the company tied to the blog post above). We built Tim (taloflow infra monitor) to save endless hours going through spreadsheets or Cost Explorer. We built it as real-time dataflow with visualizations on Grafana so you can correlate events such as deployments to how your costs change. We also built a model that predicts your real-time costs inferred from infrastructure…
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on “The ominous opacity of the AWS bill – a cautionary tale”Submitted We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline as a story · 142 points
HN discussionan acquaintance of mine has a business that specializes in the problem you’re facing. please feel free to reach out to them: https://www.taloflow.ai/
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on “Ask HN: How can I quickly trim my AWS bill?”Submitted Comparing Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute Edge, Akamai EdgeWorkers as a story · 8 points
HN discussionBuilt something like that at https://taloflow.ai/is-aws-down Looks like there’s been some errors too
Comment linking /is-aws-down
on “Zoom.us is down”Submitted Is US-East-1 Down? - Independent Health Checks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTaloflow got featured here last week - might be what you're looking for? https://www.taloflow.ai/
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on “Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud”Submitted Show HN: Is AWS Down? Independent Health Checks for 10 Regions and 7 Services as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLooks back up: https://www.taloflow.ai/is-aws-down/us-east-2
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on “Is AWS S3 having an outage?”Submitted Why just one person can't buy things that work well as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe built a service that tells you the exact cost/performance differences between different object storage systems [backblaze, storj, wasabi, s3, etc]. All you need is an AWS cost and usage report and we can tell you the tradeoffs including egress fees and everything. Would be more than happy to help you out with this. https://taloflow.ai
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on “Decentralized data storage has finally landed”Submitted Segment vs. Rudderstack vs. Alternatives in 2021 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving AWS Glue jobs to ECS on AWS Fargate led to 60% net savings as a story · 1 points
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