Also as a shameless plug: Vantage covers this is exact type of cost hiccup. If you aren't already using it, we have a very generous free tier: 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.
Vantage | 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 their infra spend.
We also have a lot of exciting projects right now for AI/Agent workflows - basically an agent that can auto-remediate cost related issues on behalf of our customers. We're a well funded Series A company and [backed by a16z, Scale venture partners and founders of Cloudflare, DigitalOcean and Segment]. The company is between 50-75 people today and scaling up quickly.
We're headquartered in NYC but US-remote friendly (sorry, we can't handle international at this time).
Co-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 going back to managing their own hardware.
Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time
Vantage is a FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, 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 their infra spend.
We also have a very significant set of work in progress for AI/Agent workflows - basically an agent that can auto-remediate cost related issues on behalf of our customers. We're a well funded Series A company and backed by a16z and Scale venture partners. The company is between 50-75 people today and scaling up quickly.
We're headquartered in NYC but US-remote friendly (sorry, we can't handle international at this time).
We just launched an MCP for getting data from the dataset behind EC2instances.info. This includes both pricing as well as specification data from the site including:
Vantage | Senior/Staff Software Engineers | NYC and Remote | Full Time
Vantage is a FinOps / Cloud Cost Management platform that helps 15,000+ organizations globally like Block, 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 their infra spend.
We're a well funded Series A company and backed by a16z and Scale. The company is about 50 people today and scaling up quickly.
The company is headquartered in NYC but US-remote friendly (sorry, we can't handle international at this time).
The $100k/dev/year figure feels like sticker shock math more than reality. Yes, AI bills are growing fast - but most teams I see are still spending substantially lower annually, and that's before applying even basic optimizations like prompt caching, model routing, or splitting work across models.
The real story is the AWS playbook all over again: vendors keep dropping unit costs, customers keep increasing consumption faster than prices fall, and in the end the bills still grow. If you’re not measuring it daily, the "marginal cost is trending down" narrative is meaningless - you’ll still get blindsided by scale.
I'm biased but the winners will be the ones who treat AI like any other cloud resource: ruthlessly measured, budgeted, and tuned.
Ironically, except for Graviton (and that's also plateauing; plus it requires that you're able to use it), basically no old AWS service has been reduced in cost since 2019. EC2, S3, etc.
Look at the early days of AWS vs recent years. The fact that AWS services have been basically flat since 2019 in a high-inflation environment is actually pretty dang good on a relative basis.
Also as a shameless plug: Vantage covers this is exact type of cost hiccup. If you aren't already using it, we have a very generous free tier: https://www.vantage.sh/
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