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.
  • moonpiedumplingsEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Provision Management Software

    Openstack skyline/horizon

    Compute

    Openstack nova

    And so on. Openstack is also many, many components, that can be pieced together for your own cloud computing platform.

    Although it won’t have the sheer number of services AWS has, many of them are redundant.

    The core services I expect to see done first: compute, networking, storage (+ image storage), and a web UI/API

    Next: S3 storage, Kubernetes as a service, and then either Databases as a service or containers as a service.

    But you are right, many of the services that AWS offers are highly specialized (robotics, space communication), and people get locked in, and I don’t really expect to see those.