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Vantage Just Updated ec2instances.info and Released All Their Code, Now What?

Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In case you haven’t noticed, Vantage recently updated ec2instances.info with a new refreshed look and feel.

Over the weekend I had a deep-dive into their changes and thought about what to do with the cloud-instances.info fork I launched just a few weeks ago.

Why I forked it in the first place?

I covered this in more depth in my initial post, but basically when I decided to fork it, their main public code base hadn’t been touched in the last 6 months, and barely touched in the last year, except for a couple of my pull requests.

Progress Report for the First Week After Forking ec2instances.info

Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a little more than a week since I decided to fork ec2instances.info as cloud-instances.info, which I announced publicly last Thursday.

While in my previous post I mostly focused on the context around this fork and how I got to it, on this post I want to talk a bit about what happened after after I decided to fork the project over the last few days and where we’re at right now.

Forking ec2instances.info as a vendor-neutral alternative at cloud-instances.info

Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Most people using AWS for enough time end up using the ec2instances.info website (a.k.a. instances.vantage.sh) to conveniently compare EC2 instance types across families based on specs and pricing.

It’s basically an online spreadsheet with a lot of data about all cloud instance types and filters to slice and dice that data, as you can see below:

The ec2instances.info Open Source project

Few users realize that this very useful website is backed by an open source project.

Current OpenTofu Contributors vs. Pledged FTEs

Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

OpenTofu Github stats half a year after the fork.

May 03, 2024

After the recent layoffs at Google that impacted open source maintainers of some prominent projects, I was curious to see what’s the state of other projects where the community had to step up involvement after the initial authors ceased their Open Source contributions.

I saw a few people made similar comparisons for other forked projects in the past. As an infra guy myself, I immediately thought about OpenTofu, now that we’re more than half a year after the fork from Terraform, they recently had a massive release, and also had some interesting shenanigans with Hashicorp’s lawyers accusing them of stealing their precious IP.