Hey HN: I'm Kaveh, the founder of Usage (https://www.usage.ai/)<p>We help companies drive down AWS costs. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. Stakeholders, especially engineers, are required to spend unnecessary time manually finding underutilized or overly expensive EC2s. We believe the optimization process should be done automatically through a series of sophisticated algorithms. At the moment, there are over 70,000 AWS EC2 prices - doing that manually just won't scale at most organizations. My background is in software engineering.<p>Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a software engineer at a number of smaller startups.<p>Here's how it works: We are typically hired by the head of engineering or the CFO. Usage analyzes your cloud usage at 5-minute increments to find cost reduction opportunities. You'll see up-front savings within minutes, and then we'll continue to email you additional savings we find that you can approve or deny.<p>We're free for your first 2 instances, then charge a flat rate of $14/month.<p>Have you experienced any issues with managing your company or organization's AWS expenses? We'd love to hear your feedback and ideas!<p>Here's a demo video https://www.loom.com/share/79f88ab43f58484181d86dc6b918813a