Using the large cloud computing providers is convenient, but not exactly cheap. Ubicloud, a new startup founded by the team behind Citus Data, which
  • 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.
  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Don’t we already have OpenStack? Something, something OpenStack complicated, something, something. Sounds a bit like raison d’étre.

    • testfactor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I was just about to say, isn’t this just OpenStack?

      I don’t even think OpenStack is needlessly complicated.
      Yes, it is complicated, but who thinks operating a cloud environment the equivalent of AWS is trivial?