Title: Hey HN: I&#x27;m Kaveh, the founder of Usage (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usage.ai&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usage.ai&#x2F;</a>)<p>We help companies drive down AWS costs. Why? Because the way it&#x27;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&#x27;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&#x27;s how it works: We are typically hired by the head of engineering. Usage makes its initial analysis of your organization&#x27;s AWS usage, then it&#x27;s passed to a human that manually verifies each recommendation for correctness. The human in the loop may reach out to if they are unsure about a particular recommendation.<p>We make money off of a monthly subscription to manage all of your organization&#x27;s AWS spend management. Our fee is based on your organization&#x27;s size and ranges from $2.5k-$10k&#x2F;month. Happy to chat directly kaveh@usage.ai<p>Have you experienced any issues with managing your company or organization&#x27;s AWS expenses? We&#x27;d love to hear your feedback and ideas!
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