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24 alternatives to CloudOps.ai by SD Squared

AI for Cloud management saving you up to 10% on AWS bills

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. CloudOps.ai by SD Squared launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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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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    AI-based cloud cost reduction platform

    2023 · 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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    Your Gen AI agent for multicloud cost management

    2024 · cloudgov.ai · its alternatives →

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    LimeOps▲213

    Cut your AWS cloud cost up to 40%

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Cloud costs observability,management and automation platform

    Jan 2026 · cloudchipr.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7IB

    Hi everyone, I've been working on a side project over quarantine called Usage.ai and I finally feel comfortable enough to launch it. We're a service that plugs directly into AWS, automatically finds savings, and applies those savings at the press of a confirmation button all without ever needing to go to an AWS console. I'd love to get HN's thoughts on it! Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/2a6f1c8e4c214914a1cdd88c6fdec4ac Link: https://www.usage.ai/

    2020 · its alternatives →

  8. 8

    Deploy faster than ever to AWS

    2024 · cloudsoul.net · its alternatives →

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    nOps▲132

    Reduce your AWS costs by 50% on auto-pilot

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Save 50%+ on your AWS EC2 bill in 5 minutes

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Save money for cloud resources up to 60%

    2018 · its alternatives →

  12. 12CA

    CAST AI (https://cast.ai) has built a cloud optimization platform that reduces AWS cloud costs 50% to 90%, optimizes DevOps, and automates disaster recovery via multi-cloud with a single cluster. Intelligent optimization engine delivers a cost-efficient, high-performing, and resilient infrastructure for every Kubernetes workload. If it sounds too good to be true - try free. To make it easier CAST AI provides AWS and GCP cloud credentials for free. Visit https://cast.ai Here's how it works: 1.Use CAST AI to deploy your K8s clusters. Next, take a look at the CAST AI…

    2021 · its alternatives →

  13. 13WB

    Hey HN: Kaveh here, founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS, GCP, and Azure 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. I have been building Usage AI for almost 4 years now (4 year anniversary in 1 month from now!) with an incredible group of founding people. We started as a product just to help lower AWS EC2 costs, and now we do all major AWS services (such as RDS, OpenSearch, ElastiCache, and Redshift with more on the way) and other…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Unlimited AWS infrastructure requests for agile businesses

    2023 · its alternatives →

  15. 15IB

    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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    Usage AI Cuts Your AWS Bill by 50% in 5 Minutes

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN community! My name is Kane and I'm on the product team at www.usage.ai , a cloud cost optimization company. After honing our product on AWS, I'm excited to announce our availability for customers on GCP and Azure! At a high level, Usage insures committed use-discounts (CUDs) to reduce commitment risk and enable higher savings for companies on the cloud. With traditional CUDs, you commit to a certain level of usage over a specified period in exchange for discounted rates from the cloud provider. However, if your actual usage falls short of the committed amount, you may not fully realize…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    nable▲11

    Cut your cloud and AI bill from inside your editor

    Jun 2026 · getnable.com · its alternatives →

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    Transform your DevOps workflow with AI-powered automation

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Instant data extraction from any file with AI

    2025 · cloudsquid.io · its alternatives →

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    The AI DevOps Engineer for AWS

    2025 · app.stationops.com · its alternatives →

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    Automate Cloud Native Development & Improve AI Dev Outcomes

    2025 · easymanage.com · its alternatives →

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    AI unit economics platform for AI companies

    Jun 2026 · lovie.co · its alternatives →

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