AWS Pricing by Strake: Get Real-time AWS Pricing in Google Sheets | Product Hunt

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Open Source•Analytics•Developer Tools

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Maker

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Hey Product Hunters, I’m Brian, a co-founder of Strake 👋 Did you know there are over 300,000 line items in AWS's most recent EC2 pricing file? I know this is a constant pain point for me - How am I supposed to know when prices change, how they impact our AWS bill, or which infrastructure changes our team should make? I’m very excited to share a solution: ‘AWS Pricing by Strake’, an open-source project that allows anyone to use Amazon Web Service’s public pricing data in Google Sheets! Strake is the cloud cost optimization platform for engineers. In addition to our main product, we have several open-source projects to help technologists understand and control their AWS costs. The add-on allows AWS users to take action against cloud costs. You can analyze public AWS pricing data, make the right infrastructure changes, and execute smarter reservations. 💰 The project currently supports Amazon EC2, EBS, and RDS, with On-Demand and Reserved Instance pricing. We have a roadmap for adding additional functionality and services including Compute Savings Plans, Fargate, DynamoDB, and more! How does it work? 1️⃣ Download ‘AWS Pricing by Strake’ from the Google Workspace Marketplace 2️⃣ Open a Google Spreadsheet, go to Extensions —> AWS Pricing by Strake —> How to Use AWS Pricing to open the sidebar with formula documentation 📖 3️⃣ Write your first formula! Try: =AWS_EC2("ondemand","m5.large","us-east-1","linux") We’re excited to collaborate with the Product Hunt & AWS community through this project. Please share your feedback on the product below. We'd love your input on the roadmap! 🚀

2yr ago

Maker

@brian_regan I'm happy we're finally able to push this out into the world and help take the headache out of estimating AWS spend. We've put a lot of work into making this a great first version and I'm proud of what the team put together.

2yr ago

Maker

@brian_regan very exciting, it's great to see an easy way to embed this type of information directly in a Google Sheet!

2yr ago

Maker

@jtreinen agreed, very exciting! Can't wait to see what the Product Hunt community thinks!

2yr ago

Maker

@aryounce Agreed!

2yr ago

InnerSense

@brian_regan very useful product. Do you plan to add other cloud providers? Price comparison will be a killer feature

2yr ago

Maker

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I would love some early feedback on how people intend to use this tool. Feel free to comment as to what your primary job function is, and how this project will make your day to day work a little easier. And as always, any requests for additional functionality are welcome!

2yr ago

Maker

@jtreinen Great point, Jim! We have channels dedicated to specific topics in our slack community. For example, to take part in the conversation of expanding to be mutli-cloud, you can check out the channel here: https://strake-community.slack.c...

2yr ago

Maker

@jtreinen to piggyback on this: we'd also appreciate any feedback on the sidebar layout. Is it easy to navigate and understand?

2yr ago

Maker

@jtreinen @burney This is a really good call-out, @burney . We are working on building a sidebar formula builder that would allow users to construct their formulas using dropdowns in the sidebar and then "copy" the formula into a cell in their Google Sheet. Adding features like this to the existing UI should make the project useful for varying levels of experience with Google Sheets.

2yr ago

Spiritory

How often is the AWS pricing data being updated? Can we also use this for other cloud providers? Thank you!

2yr ago

Maker

@andy_wong4 We're doing data updates weekly, current data is from March 15 2023. We pull the data from "https://pricing.us-east-1.amazon...", and are working out plumbing to be event driven so we'll _always_ be fresh. Here's an overview of the data source we work with: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws... . For example, the ec2 data set is about 3.9GB of json, we boil that down to be usable by humans with the plugin. re. other clouds: yes, some day, but not today... we're working our way through AWS one service at a time (at least the popular services).

2yr ago

Maker

@andy_wong4 Other cloud providers are something we're considering for the future. It would be great to do comparisons, but it's also tough to map similar yet not equivalent products across the providers. We're thinking about this every day and will definitely be writing about it on our blog.

2yr ago

Maker

@andy_wong4 A followup: let me point you to #other-clouds at the Strake Community slack: https://strake-community.slack.c... We're looking for people & organizations interested in adding more cloud providers to this free & open source project.

2yr ago

Maker

@andy_wong4 Andy, if you want to be part of the conversation for adding other cloud providers, we have a channel in our slack community dedicated to this topic. We'd love to continue the conversation here: https://strake-community.slack.c...

2yr ago

Great product so far - love the visibility that I’m getting, as well as the ease of use. Looking forward to leveraging this product going forward!

2yr ago

Thank you for the review, Alex! Please let us know if you have any additional feedback or roadmap requests!

2yr ago

We appreciate your review, Alex, and are happy that you find our add-on easy to use. It's very exciting to finally get this into people's hands.

2yr ago

Thank you for the review, as you continue to use the plugin if there are things you think we should add, please let us know !

2yr ago

We are thrilled to hear this, Alex! Thanks for your kind words!

2yr ago

Jillian Chrysikos

Knapsack

It's crazy how often I hear how much time engineers are spending on managing cloud costs. This tool is a huge time-saver. Not only do engineers save time and effort, but finance can get questions answered much quicker and can manage the business better! I hope lots of developers start taking advantage of it!

2yr ago

Thank you for the review! Communication around cloud costs can be such a huge pain for engineering and finance teams. If there is anything else we can do to help solve this issue please let us know.

2yr ago

One of our primary goals is to save time, so we are thrilled to hear that this is happening!

2yr ago

This is so encouraging to hear, as it lets us know we are helping to solve a real problem. Thank you!

2yr ago

Great tool for AWS cost control

2yr ago

Thank you for the review! We are happy to hear you find this useful for cost control. If there is anything you would like to see added to the roadmap, please let us know!

2yr ago

Thank you, as you continue to use the plugin, we would love to hear more about specific use cases where it has made your day more efficient!

2yr ago

Thank you, Steph!

2yr ago

Thanks Steph, we appreciate your review 🤩

2yr ago