If you're an AWS customer, this is one of those no-brainer solutions once you discover it.
With AWS On-Demand pricing, you have no long term commitments and maximum flexibility based on your usage — but you'll pay an arm and a leg.
With AWS Reserved, AWS instances are basically set aside just for you — for periods of 2-3 years. So you might pay less but you're locked into a long term commitment. If you're a startup, your needs may change and so you can't risk taking the long term bet just to save some money.
Enter Antimetal: they use AI to analyze your AWS usage and procure services only based on what you need, saving you money and avoiding long term lock-in.
They're able to do this by creating a secondary marketplace for your Reserved contracts — and they automate the buying, selling, and transferring of these commitments among their customers.
Win-win-win.
And, best of all — it's free for startups for the first year, and then after that, Antimetal takes its cut from the money they save you.
Like I said: no-brainer! 🧠
