Hi all,<p>I'm Co-Founder and CEO of www.vantage.sh - we recently launched "Advanced Analytics" which gives you the ability to see the accrued cost of each individual AWS resource in your AWS account(s) day by day broken down by cost category (computer, storage, transit, etc)<p>This gives you the ability to see costs for "hard" resources to see costs for...so imagine seeing the cost of each Lambda Function, Cloudfront Distribution, SNS Topic or SQS Queue.<p>The way this works is that Vantage will automatically profile for all active resources in your account using List/Describe service API calls then join that up with Cost and Usage Report (CUR) data.<p>Happy to answer any questions and hopefully this helps people demystify their AWS bills a bit. We also have a healthy free tier for the first $2,500 of AWS costs per month if you want to give it a shot on a personal account.
The original premise of clouds was good. Allow companies to run their software on someone else's machines. The cloud guys wanted to make more money so they started cloning commercial software and then charging companies to use their home-grown stuff. Then the cloud guys began to sub-divide and monetize slivers of service and components of hosting. The danger obviously is that you pay more than if you had your own on premise hardware. Even more serious is the fact you are locked in to their home-grown software and management tools. I predict a re-examination of the whole cloud paradigm at some point relatively soon.
I’m a happy customer. Vantage caught (after a week) a 50% month over month increase we had overlooked. So we were able to rein it in and mitigate damage.