AWS Pricing by Strake

Name: AWS Pricing by Strake
Rating: 5.0 (2 reviews)

Get Real-time AWS Pricing in Google Sheets

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Get Real-time AWS Pricing in Google Sheets

5.0•2 reviews•

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AWS Pricing by Strake is an open-source tool to analyze AWS Pricing in Google Sheets. Use our custom functions to collaborate, understand AWS pricing, and make AWS Reservations! Download for free today from the Google Workspace Marketplace!

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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! 🚀

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3yr 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.

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3yr 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!

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3yr ago

Maker

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

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3yr ago

Maker

@aryounce Agreed!

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3yr ago

InnerSense

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

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3yr 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!

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3yr 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...

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3yr ago

Maker

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

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3yr 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.

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3yr ago

Spiritory

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

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3yr 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).

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3yr 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.

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3yr 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.

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3yr 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...

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3yr ago

Sequoia

Congratulations on the launch! Nice work! Are there any plans to do the same for GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean?

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3yr ago

Maker

@asaskevich It's definitely on the horizon. We're an AWS focused company (for now) but know that enabling comparison across all providers would indeed be really valuable. One difficulty is how to do a true comparison between the managed services (databases, queues, and pretty much anything serverless). That being said we're always thinking about it and welcome whatever suggestions you may have.

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3yr ago

Maker

@asaskevich We're also looking for people & organizations interested in adding more cloud providers to this free & open source project. If you're interested please do say Hello on the #other-clouds channel at the Strake Community slack: https://strake-community.slack.c...

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3yr ago

Maker

@asaskevich Thank you for the great question! We are always looking for feedback from the community on what we should include next.. per @john_greve 's comment, we have a channel in slack dedicated to this question 😃

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3yr ago

My fave! It is stupid how difficult AWS pricing is to manage - it becomes another project for every engineering team to do it well. I’m on my third startup now, we’ve built some version this in house EVERY TIME. Each time, I evaluated all the various “cloud cost management” SaaS apps, but they were all terrible every time. This is the first time I’ve seen one I WANT to use!

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3yr ago

Maker

@jjguy Thank you for the feedback! Let us know if you or your team have any other features you'd find valuable when trying to solve this problem.

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3yr ago

Maker

@jjguy Thanks for the support and the feedback, please let us know if there is anything you would like to see added !

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3yr ago

Maker

@jjguy Fantastic to hear, @jjguy! We hope you find it useful!

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3yr ago

Maker

@jjguy thanks for your comment. I'm interested to know what is "terrible" about the other cloud cost management apps you've evaluated. Perhaps there are some features we could add to our add-on that can address some of these problems.

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3yr ago

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!

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3yr ago

Maker

@jillian_chrysikos thanks for the thoughts... one of the core problems we are trying to solve is the amount of time that is wasted in just collecting, normalizing, and analyzing these types of data before they can be used to solve the actual problem.

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3yr ago

Maker

@jillian_chrysikos it's encouraging to hear that we are solving a real problem. Thank you for the feedback.

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3yr ago

Maker

Agree completely, @jillian_chrysikos! AWS costs should not be a hindrance to innovation, and the more details teams have the more the product and engineering teams can focus on building great products!

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3yr ago

Maker

@jillian_chrysikos Thank you for the feedback! It is important to understand that cloud costs have an impact on the entire business. Is there anything, in particular, we can do with this tool to help solve your business needs?

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3yr ago

Incredible product! Strake is very helpful and Brian has done an amazing job developing this company with his team.

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3yr ago

Maker

@davis_wilson4 Thanks for the vote of confidence Davis. We put a lot of effort into building the support for EC2 and RDS, and we're pushing to include more services as soon as we can.

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3yr ago

Maker

Thank you for the feedback, @davis_wilson4. It was a team effort and we're all excited to help solve this problem.

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3yr ago

Maker

@davis_wilson4 Thanks! Let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions for features you'd like to see in the future!

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3yr ago

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