SaaS to optimise your cloud costs
Hey guys! We're a team of developers building a Software as a Service to help tech managers whose teams use one or multiple public cloud providers to help them optimise infrastructure cost and have a more granular control over their cloud expenses with a pay as you go and fast integration process.
This is a problem I've personally experienced in every company I've worked on and I feel like the existing solutions (https://www.cloudability.com/ and https://www.cloudhealthtech.com/) are a black box: they're basically not integrated with the workflow of a normal developer.
Right now we're in the process of creating the MVP as a proof of concept and we have a simple website here: http://getrocketlauncher.com/ .
What do you think? Sounds like a problem you've ever had? How do you manage the costs for the servers and services that you're using?
Any feedback would be really appreciated! Also if you have any ideas where should I present my idea next that would be awesome.
Interesting to see what you come up with since it has too many elements. On a related note, anyone who thinks AWS cost explorer is too heavy and need a simple cost visualisation tool, ping me, I have a beta product that may be useful to you.
I think the problem is clear but I don't fully understand the solution. What would it mean for it to be more "integrated in the workflow of the normal developer?". Maybe it is a slack bot that reports whenever a pull request adds additional cloud costs?
I'm thinking more like a monitoring solution that sends you an email to your team when they need to do something about it. That's like my naive approach.
Okay, I'm not only writing this in return Ruben, it really is something that is top of the agenda right now :).
To me - as a sole founder - there is two pains:
There is services like Runcloud or Ploi that manage single servers. Good to start, but not scalable. I now used Runcloud to set up my server, made an AMI at AWS and used that for my scale group. Not ideal. And then there are tools to help you design your setup and make a cost estimate.
But these two combined?
I think Laravel Vapor is giving it a shot, but that one is out of my league.
I'd be curious to see what you come up with.
Hey Xander thanks for your reply! Really interesting services I'll research those. I think anyone who has to pay for their own services has experienced that same pain 😆