Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Cloud-Connect
A centralized EC2 management system for AWS accounts.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Cloud-Connect launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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SSH over AWS SSM. No bastions or public-facing instances. SSH user management through IAM. No requirement to store SSH keys locally or on server. - elpy1/ssh-over-ssm
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Visualize your AWS environment as isometric architecture diagrams. Snap together blocks for EC2s, ELBs, RDS and more. Connect your live AWS environment.
2015 · cloudcraft.co · its alternatives →
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Amazon SSO▲69Manage access to multiple AWS accounts & business apps
2018 · aws.amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We launched on Hacker News for the first time early last year, and we've made a lot of progress since then. We've saved tens of millions of dollars for companies, and we are even more excited to announce the launch of a new product: insured reservations for RDS! We worked closely with AWS on this feature and are excited to finally make it generally available. We help companies drive down AWS EC2 & RDS spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs…
2023 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs rather than focusing on business problems. Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a software engineer at a number of smaller startups. Here's how it works: We are typically brought in by a DevOps manager to cut AWS EC2 costs. The app is entirely self-service and the savings are generated automatically,…
2022 · usage.ai · its alternatives →
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Instant Security for your AWS Environments
2023 · app.bleachcyber.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · cloudoptimizer.io · its alternatives →
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Cloud spend visibility tool Finally Get Clarity On Cloud Spend Without Hours Lost In Dashboards
2018 · cloudforecast.io · its alternatives →
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Infrabase▲142We too at first thought that letting an LLM manage your AWS account must be a bad idea. What could possibly go wrong?? However we couldn’t resist building it, and when we did, we were surprised how much it can do even in plain vanilla form, which currently is just the ai-sdk frontend with some aws sdk code generation (inspared by aws-mcp). We all but stopped using the AWS console internally and switched to Infrabase - a lot of the time it’s much faster to prompt than to click around in AWS console, especially for things that involve multiple steps, IAM roles, etc. So we started to think of…
2025 · infrabase.co · its alternatives →
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Manage all your cloud storage accounts from one dashboard
Feb 2026 · allcloudhub.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · awssystemadministration.com · its alternatives →
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Collie CLI▲76Manage your AWS, Azure & GCP clouds with our open-source CLI
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Operate EC2 across AWS accounts with AI guardrails
Jan 2026 · cloud1.live · its alternatives →
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A better dashboard to manage your EC2 instances
2021 · ec2-dashboard.com · its alternatives →
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Accessify▲70Manage access to all the services your team uses
2020 · accessify.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN: I'm Kaveh, the founder of Usage (https://www.usage.ai/) We help companies drive down AWS costs. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. Stakeholders, especially engineers, are required to spend unnecessary time manually finding underutilized or overly expensive EC2s. We believe the optimization process should be done automatically through a series of sophisticated algorithms. At the moment, there are over 70,000 AWS EC2 prices - doing that manually just won't scale at most organizations. My background is in software engineering. Previous to founding Usage, I…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN community, [Direct Link: www.usage.ai] I’m Kaveh, founder and CEO of Usage, and am excited to show you Usage, an app that helps you slash your AWS EC2 bill by 50% in ~5min by trading reservations. As of today, Usage is in General Availability and any AWS user can use it. It works by creating a limited-access IAM role (ReadOnly + Ability to Manage Reservations) into your AWS account(s). The AWS console interface has made it hard for companies to optimize their AWS spend. After years of working for different companies that use AWS, I still find it difficult to understand how much money…
2022 · its alternatives →
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CloudMapper helps you analyze your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. - duo-labs/cloudmapper
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CloudSu▲59Open-source app that uses Chef and AWS together beautifully
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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