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Vantage
Company blog · vantage.sh/blog · on HN as StratusBenbusinessprogramming
Vantage is the company blog at vantage.sh, writing about business and programming. Since 2020, 51 different Hacker News readers have linked it 248 times, most often “ClickHouse-Local vs. DuckDB on Two Billion Rows of Costs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Vantage's blog for AWS and cloud cost analysis: S3 vs Cloudflare R2 pricing, S3 Express One Zone costs, and ClickHouse-local vs DuckDB. Many links cite posts as sources or appear in product mentions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Vantage is a self-service cloud cost platform that gives developers the tools they need to analyze, report on and optimize AWS, Azure, and GCP costs.
Most-linked posts?
- ClickHouse-Local vs. DuckDB on Two Billion Rows of Costs6 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2023-05-23
- Cloud Costs Every Programmer Should Know5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-08-28
- Show HN: Vantage – An alternative AWS console focused on developer experience4 people · 25 mentions · first linked 2021-01-12
- Storage Wars: R2 vs. S34 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-06-23
- Switch to VPC Endpoints from Nat Gateways to Reduce Bandwidth Charges3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-06-09
- Q4 Cloud Costs - Data on How Companies Are Saving Money on AWS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-30
- Querying a Billion Rows of AWS Cost Data 100X Faster with DuckDB3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-10
- /pricing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-10-26
- /2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-04-27
- Profiling 25,000 S3 Buckets: The Billion Dollar Opportunity for Cloudflare R22 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-20
What Hacker News says?
Disclosure: I'm the Co-Founder of Vantage. This is exactly what we do with Vantage: http://vantage.sh/ We give point-in-time run-rates of all active resources based off of the region and resource/service configuration. In addition we try to simplify people's understanding of where their costs are coming from. If anyone needs help with this, they can personally reach out to me at ben@vantage.sh
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on “Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt”Submitted Show HN: Vantage – An alternative AWS console focused on developer experience as a story · 221 points
HN discussionI'm Co-Founder of http://vantage.sh/ and we allow you to connect your AWS account(s) and we'll monitor cloud spend on your behalf. We send out regular cost report emails to try and help folks avoid situations like this and have some future plans around anomaly detection to try and help out in advance of things like this happening. I strongly encourage folks to sign up and let us monitor things on your behalf. We hav…
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on “Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt”Submitted AWS Cost Saving Recommendations as a story · 189 points
HN discussionWe consistently hear from our customers that egress and transit costs are one of the most difficult things to track from a cost perspective as it relates to AWS. If anyone is struggling to see egress as it relates to S3 specifically, we put together this guide here which may be relevant for this conversation as well: https://www.vantage.sh/blog/how-to-see-s3-bucket-request-met...
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on “AWS's Egregious Egress”Submitted Get AWS costs posted directly to Slack as a story · 104 points
HN discussionCo-Founder and CEO of https://vantage.sh/ here - I've been pretty impressed by the rate that repatriation is happening off of public cloud. It rarely ever came up and in the last year it's been popping up more and more -- and especially just for getting access to GPU workloads. I thought there would be a greater unbundling to AWS or to cheaper providers but it seems like a good-sized portion of the market is just go…
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on “AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS”Submitted Vantage has acquired ec2instances.info as a story · 86 points
HN discussionReally curious to see how this goes. If they live up to the following paragraph, that's pretty game-changing: >> This cheaper price doesn’t come with reduced scalability. Behind the scenes, R2 automatically and intelligently manages the tiering of data to drive both performance at peak load and low-cost for infrequently requested objects. We’ve gotten rid of complex, manual tiering policies in favor of what develope…
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on “Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees”Submitted RDS vs. PlanetScale: Pricing Considerations as a story · 78 points
HN discussionAs for the AWS UI: I completely agree. I'm in the early access beta for a product being built that solves almost all of its problems and felt you might want to see it: https://vantage.sh/ Pretty sure they said they're launching in July so should be live soon.
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on “Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?”Submitted How to See S3 Bucket Storage Types and Storage Costs as a story · 78 points
HN discussionWorking on https://www.vantage.sh/ Specifically working on our FinOps agent which can identify and remediate cloud infa cost related issues across AWS, Azure, Datadog, etc. The agent lives in Slack and surfaces cost savings initiatives for teams to inspect and approve for the agent to fix.
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on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)”Submitted Switch to VPC Endpoints from Nat Gateways to Reduce Bandwidth Charges as a story · 61 points
HN discussionVantage | Software Engineers (Senior & Staff) | Full-time | NYC & Remote (US) www.vantage.sh Vantage is a cloud cost platform that gives engineering and finance teams the ability to get visibility on and optimize their cloud infrastructure costs. Our founders are technical and formerly worked at AWS and DigitalOcean. We have many paying customers with a very fleshed out roadmap and are looking for engineers to help…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Submitted Show HN: Vantage Autopilot – Save on AWS EC2 Costs as a story · 61 points
HN discussionI believe this is the use case Cloudflare is really targeting with R2. They recently connected Cache Reserve to R2 to make this even easier. We wrote up a breakdown for S3 vs R2 and found that R2 would be significantly cheaper when the majority of traffic is cached data, https://www.vantage.sh/blog/cloudflare-r2-aws-s3-comparison
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on “We reduced our server costs by moving away from AWS”Submitted Show HN: See your costs for each AWS resource as a story · 32 points
HN discussionWhen you sign up and verify your email you will see the provided CloudFormation template found here for auditing of IAM permissions: https://vantage-public.s3.amazonaws.com/x-account-role-creat... The list of permissions is a whittled down version of what's available in the AWS managed policy of "ReadOnlyAccess" and doesn't allow us to do things like read from S3 Buckets or read from RDS instances. Basically just Li…
Comment linking /blog/how-vantage-uses-cross-account-iam-roles-to-securely-connect-to-customer-aws-accounts
on “Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server in AWS”Submitted Vantage Launches Advanced Analytics: See the Cost of Individual AWS Resources as a story · 21 points
HN discussion[Disclosure] I'm Co-Founder and CEO of a company named http://vantage.sh/ that helps developers track and reduce cloud costs - I also previously worked at both AWS and DigitalOcean. We hear about this all the time from AWS customers and its a large reason why people connect their account to Vantage which will help alert you if costs change intra-month. The first $2,500 in AWS costs per month are tracked for free so…
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on “Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server in AWS”Submitted Show HN: API for Ec2instances.info Data from Vantage as a story · 18 points
HN discussionTime to check out https://vantage.sh/ :)
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on “Ask HN: Does anyone else find the AWS Lambda developer experience frustrating?”Submitted Switch from NAT Gateways to VPC Endpoints and Reduce Bandwidth Charges as a story · 15 points
HN discussionDisclosure: I'm Co-Founder and CEO of a cloud cost company named https://www.vantage.sh/ - I also used to be on the product management team at AWS and DigitalOcean. I'm not intentionally trying to shill but this is exactly why people choose to use Vantage. We give them a set of features for automating and understanding what they can do to manage and save on costs. We're also adding multi-cloud support (GCP is in ear…
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on “AWS S3: Sometimes you should press the $100k button”Submitted Cloudflare Specific Cost Recommendations for AWS CloudFront and AWS S3 Egress as a story · 15 points
HN discussionOn this topic, it's always surprising to me how few people even seem to know about different storage classes on S3...or even intelligent tiering (which I know carries a cost to it, but allows AWS to manage some of this on your behalf which can be helpful for certain use-cases and teams). We did an analysis of S3 storage levels by profiling 25,000 random S3 buckets a while back for a comparison of Amazon S3 and R2* a…
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on “AWS S3: Sometimes you should press the $100k button”Submitted Profiling 25,000 S3 Buckets: The Billion Dollar Opportunity for Cloudflare R2 as a story · 10 points
HN discussionVantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time Vantage is an a16z-backed FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, Vercel, Temporal, Rippling, FanDuel, CircleCI, etc manage their infrastructure costs. We are a ruby/rails shop and if you love infrastructure, it's a very interesting role as our customers are others like you looking to manage t…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)”Submitted Show HN: Kubernetes Cost Visibility for Amazon EKS as a story · 10 points
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