Open source alternative to AWS
Ubicloud is an open source cloud that can run anywhere. Our cloud services include elastic compute, block storage, virtual networking, managed Postgres, and powerful IAM. Ubicloud provides these services on bare metal providers, such as Hetzner, Leaseweb, or AWS Bare Metal. You can self-host our software or use our managed service to reduce your cloud costs by 3-10x.
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Umur Cubukcu
Previously visiting partner at YC for W23 and S23; now co-founder at Ubicloud. Co-founder and CEO of Citus Data (S11), the creators of the distributed PostgreSQL database Citus. Led the PostgreSQL product team at Azure, after Citus Data was acquired in 2019 by Microsoft.
Ozgun Erdogan
I started out as a software developer at Amazon. Four years later, I cofounded Citus Data (S11) with two of the smartest guys I know. After plenty of hard work, we got acquired by Microsoft. There, I led engineering teams in Azure’s PostgreSQL org. Recently, I cofounded Ubicloud, an open alternative to AWS. I love two things about Ubicloud. First, the opportunity to work and collaborate with amazing people. Second, the potential to build a generational company.
Daniel Farina
I am one of the founders of Ubicloud. I've contributed to a number of control planes from an early phase, starting at Heroku, in what would become Heroku Postgres. Since then, I've serially created new control planes and infrastructure cloud products with some close colleagues, at Citus Cloud and Crunchy Bridge. Ubicloud is the fourth such system.
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TL;DR: Ubicloud provides IaaS cloud features on bare metal providers, such as Hetzner, Leaseweb, or AWS Bare Metal. You can self-host our software or use our managed service to reduce your cloud costs by 3-10x.
Hey everyone 👋 We’re Umur, Daniel, and Ozgun from Ubicloud. We’re on a mission to rebuild the cloud market with different values. More on us below.
The Problem
AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud make life easier for start-ups and enterprises. But they are closed source, have you rent computers at a huge premium, and lock you in. It gets worse after your credits expire.
Although the cloud came in with savings in its early years, the market evolved into a few players that overcharge for non-differentiated services, with increasingly complex products for standard, essential services. Each vendor optimizing for their walled gardens leaves customers stuck maintaining their apps and infra across incompatible clouds.
The cloud is here to stay. We believe a simpler, secure, and open source version of it will have a lasting impact.
The Solution
Ubicloud offers an open source alternative, reduces your costs, and returns control of your infrastructure back to you — all without sacrificing the cloud’s benefits. We’re starting with elastic compute, virtual networking, block storage (non-replicated), managed PostgreSQL, and powerful IAM.
Our managed cloud runs on cost-effective bare metal providers, such as Hetzner. As a result, you can reduce your costs by 3-10x. Example use-cases:
- GitHub Actions: Change 1-line in your workflow file. Reduce costs by 10x
- Compute for batch processing: Run data pipelines for AI, scientific computing, and video processing - on-demand and encrypted. Reduce costs by 3x (vs AWS VMs)
- Managed PostgreSQL: Open source and portable. Uses local NVMes for higher performance, ideal for analytics. Reduce costs by 3x (vs AWS RDS)
The Team
“Never tell me the odds.” — Han Solo
We think the cloud galaxy deserves a solution that stands for open source values. We’re building to those values as part of the Rebel Alliance (yes, an alliance is needed to outmatch the empire :). From left to right:
Umur - 5 years at startups. Then co-founded and led Citus Data (S11) to Microsoft acquisition. Led product teams within Azure. YC Visiting Partner for the previous two batches
Ozgun - 4 years at Amazon. Then co-founded and led Citus Data (S11) to Microsoft acquisition. Led engineering teams within Azure.
Daniel - Instrumental in building Heroku PostgreSQL. Amazed everyone with his skills in building managed cloud services at Citus Data, Azure, and Crunchy Bridge.
Our Ask
- Help us build the Rebel Alliance. Follow us (@UbicloudHQ) on Twitter and tweet this post!
- Start using Ubicloud for GitHub Actions, secure virtual machines, or managed PostgreSQL. We reduce costs by 3-10x and we are open source!
The Deal
Tweeting and following us on Twitter gets 5,000 free compute minutes (standard-2). Using Ubicloud for one of the above use cases before demo day gets 10,000 compute minutes. Claim those minutes by sending us an email at founders@ubicloud.com