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0 pointsayewo4y ago0 comments

So you've been speaking to the first group and need a way to speak to the second group, got it, thanks.

A couple of questions:

1. It seems your product is proactive with respect to cloud costs while Vantage, CloudForecast etc are more on the reactive side of the spectrum?

2. I imagine that relative to Infracost, a cloud asset management tool like CloudQuery https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery would also fit in the reactive bucket?

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toeknee1234y ago· 1 in thread

Appreciate the shout out and your assessment is pretty spot on w/ #1 (I am one of the co-founders of CloudForecast).

We're actually huge fans of Infracost and what they've done so far. They've built an amazing tool for eng teams, who should always be the lead when it comes to managing cloud cost. We actually have a few customers using them along side us as well.

Congrats on launch, Ali, Hassan and Alistair!

akh4y ago

Thanks!

hkh4y ago

1. Exactly! We built one of the early cloud cost management products before EC2 had cost explorer (it was called RightScale Cloud Analytics) and spent years working on the reactive approach. We're now bringing costs into the dev workflow, in the same way that security tools like Snyk have switched the focus to proactive.

2. Yep, those tools query the cloud APIs for existing resources. Meaning they have to have been launched (and already costing money) to be discovered.

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