I built a service to help companies save on their AWS bills

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Hey HN: I'm Kaveh, the founder of Usage (https://www.usage.ai/) 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. 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. 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. You can register for free, then charge 20% of savings. Have you experienced any issues with managing your company or organization's AWS expenses? We'd love to hear your feedback and ideas! Here's a demo video https://www.loom.com/share/79f88ab43f58484181d86dc6b918813a

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