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StratusBen

joined 4/13/2020, 6:26:26 PM has 1071 karma

Co-Founder of http://vantage.sh/ - a cloud cost visibility platform.

Previously product @ AWS on container services, product lead for compute @ DigitalOcean.

I love infrastructure - please feel free to contact me at ben@vantage.sh

Recent Posts

Show HN: An MCP server for understanding AWS costs
by StratusBenon 4/25/2025, 2:43:57 PM with 6 comments
Grafana: Why observability needs FinOps, and vice versa
by StratusBenon 2/6/2025, 7:13:34 PM with 8 comments
Show HN: Cur.vantage.sh – AWS Billing Code Lookup Tool
by StratusBenon 2/4/2025, 5:40:57 PM with 1 comment
Datadog vs. Grafana: Pricing Comparisons
by StratusBenon 1/8/2025, 7:16:05 PM with 2 comments
AWS Savings Plan and Reserved Instance Policy Changes for Resellers
by StratusBenon 11/25/2024, 4:50:05 PM with 1 comment
Show HN: GitHub Cost Visibility and Optimization
by StratusBenon 9/12/2024, 5:04:11 PM with 1 comment
GPT 4-O Mini vs. Claude 3 Haiku vs. Gemini 1.5 Flash: Pricing Considerations
by StratusBenon 8/13/2024, 3:53:24 PM with 0 comments
Show HN: See Network Flow Costs by Ingesting VPC Flow Logs and Cur
by StratusBenon 8/5/2024, 4:54:25 PM with 0 comments
Demystifying and Optimizing AWS Data Transfer Costs
by StratusBenon 7/12/2024, 6:48:37 PM with 0 comments
Intel vs. AMD vs. Graviton: Amazon EC2 Processor Differences and Distribution
by StratusBenon 4/22/2024, 9:27:34 PM with 22 comments
Twitter charging $250,000 for inactive handles
by StratusBenon 3/9/2024, 5:35:41 PM with 3 comments
How AWS Is Using Capacity Blocks to Alleviate the GPU Shortage
by StratusBenon 12/4/2023, 8:42:57 PM with 0 comments
Show HN: Automated Cloud Cost Reporting via Terraform
by StratusBenon 9/26/2023, 5:06:09 PM with 0 comments
AWS/Azure/GCP Cloud Cost Report
by StratusBenon 8/8/2023, 2:47:10 PM with 0 comments
Show HN: AWS Cost Leaderboard
by StratusBenon 6/20/2023, 2:45:28 AM with 0 comments
Show HN: OpenAI Cost Monitoring
by StratusBenon 4/24/2023, 4:57:31 PM with 0 comments
Query Performance Analysis with Insights
by StratusBenon 4/20/2023, 4:39:41 PM with 0 comments
Show HN: Save Money on RDS, Elasticache, Redshift with Vantage Autopilot
by StratusBenon 1/24/2023, 8:33:59 PM with 1 comment
Datadog Cost Optimization Tips
by StratusBenon 11/7/2022, 9:10:18 PM with 0 comments
One Million Database Connections
by StratusBenon 11/1/2022, 4:03:07 PM with 7 comments
Vantage Cloud Cost Report Q3 2022
by StratusBenon 10/18/2022, 7:51:24 PM with 1 comment
Vantage Launches Cost Anomaly Alerts for AWS, GCP, Snowflake and More
by StratusBenon 9/27/2022, 6:05:54 PM with 0 comments
PlanetScale now displays system status directly in your dashboard
by StratusBenon 7/19/2022, 3:50:59 PM with 0 comments
Show HN: Ec2instances.info Launches Detail Pages for EC2 and RDS
by StratusBenon 7/14/2022, 4:46:42 PM with 1 comment