AWS Pricing by Strake

AWS Pricing by Strake

Get Real-time AWS Pricing in Google Sheets

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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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Brian Regan
Maker
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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! 🚀
Adam Younce
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.
Jim Treinen
Maker
@brian_regan very exciting, it's great to see an easy way to embed this type of information directly in a Google Sheet!
Brian Regan
Maker
@jtreinen agreed, very exciting! Can't wait to see what the Product Hunt community thinks!
Brian Regan
Maker
@aryounce Agreed!
Ivan Kuznetsov
@brian_regan very useful product. Do you plan to add other cloud providers? Price comparison will be a killer feature
Jim Treinen
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!
Brian Regan
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...
Ryan Burney
Maker
@jtreinen to piggyback on this: we'd also appreciate any feedback on the sidebar layout. Is it easy to navigate and understand?
Brian Regan
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.
Andy Wong
How often is the AWS pricing data being updated? Can we also use this for other cloud providers? Thank you!
John Greve
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).
Adam Younce
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.
John Greve
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.
Brian Regan
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...