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Ubicloud wants to build an open source alternative to AWS | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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Ubicloud aims to provide an open source alternative to AWS by offering core cloud computing services on affordable bare-metal servers.
The focus is currently on compute, PostgreSQL database service, networking capabilities, with plans to add block storage and Kubernetes-based container service.
Co-founders have experience with Citus Data and Azure, and the company recently raised a $16 million seed round.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

This includes a managed service and an open source version that allows developers to build their own cloud on bare-metal providers.

Citus Data was part of the Y Combinator summer 2011 cohort and after his time at Microsoft, Cubukcu went back to the accelerator as a visiting partner in 2023.

The company is also seeing a number of users who spin up machines for long-running workloads on the platform, as well as solid demand for its PostgreSQL database service.

Erdogan stressed that a Kubernetes platform is also on the way, which in turn will allow the team to offer more features on top of its infrastructure-as-a-service layer.

Ever since the dawn of hyberscale clouds, we’ve seen projects that aimed to provide the core AWS services, mostly for on-premises use cases.

It is open, yes, but then it supports 10 different flavors of operating systems and hypervisors — and in order to make it work, you really need an army of people.

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