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Today Vantage announced the launch of cost recommendations across multiple infrastructure and service providers: the first of which is providing AWS customers with an automated recommendation to use Cloudflare when incurring significant egress costs with CloudFront and S3. Vantage is now automatically monitoring the trailing 30 days of AWS CloudFront and S3 egress usage on behalf of all customers and making cost recommendations showing potential monthly savings of delivering certain content from Cloudflare.
Many AWS customers typically start off building their applications entirely upon AWS. As certain parts of their applications grow and scale, there are specific measures they can take to control costs while staying entirely within the confines of services that AWS provides. However, depending on the specific AWS service, it can still be quite expensive relative to other cloud infrastructure providers. AWS pricing is complicated in and of itself and comparing AWS pricing with other third-party providers takes time and effort.
Now, AWS customers can rely on Vantage to provide them with cost recommendations from multiple cloud infrastructure and service providers. The first cross-provider recommendation will be for AWS customers to consider using Cloudflare when incurring significant egress charges on Amazon CloudFront or Amazon S3. Vantage will automatically profile CloudFront and S3 egress usage for the trailing 30 days and surface potential savings in the Vantage console for switching to Cloudflare. Additionally, we've contributed an overview of this topic to the recently launched Cloud Cost Handbook which can be read by anyone here.
