Vantage

Vantage is a cloud cost observability tool designed to provide comprehensive visibility and optimization of cloud and SaaS expenditure. It connects to multiple cloud providers and SaaS accounts, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and Kubernetes, among others. Vantage allows users to analyze and visualize their spend, allocate costs down to specific users, Kubernetes clusters, business groups, and more.

Network flow analysis is a key feature, offering insights into AWS ingress and egress costs, such as the cost of data egress to Datadog. The tool integrates with several platforms, including GitHub, New Relic, and PlanetScale, to provide full infrastructure cost visibility.

Vantage offers a range of features for cost management and optimization, including detailed cost reporting, hierarchical cost allocation, budgeting and budget alerts, resource reporting, anomaly detection, and recommendations for cost savings. For Kubernetes, it provides efficiency metrics and rightsizing recommendations to optimize resource allocation.

Despite its robust capabilities, Vantage currently lacks support for some common services like OpenAI and Cloudflare, although these are on the development roadmap. Users can write custom providers to import cost data in the meantime.

Vantage also includes tools for financial planning and optimization, such as automated AWS cost savings through their Autopilot feature, which offers an industry-low fee of 5% of savings. Other financial tools include unit cost tracking, commitment reports, and a savings planner to model the impact of purchasing savings plans.

Overall, Vantage equips organizations with the tools needed to monitor, analyze, and optimize their cloud costs, making it a valuable asset for engineering, finance, and operations teams.