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24 alternatives to I made a cloud security product that actually saves time
I have been a Cloud Security Consultant for over 13 years and all that experience I put into building ARGOS Cloud Security. Probably the most common thing I've seen was teams spending loads of time manually investigating alerts from security products. Detecting security issues is not what it’s ever been about, but about the investigation of these detected issues. If you don’t have time to investigate everything, then what’s the point? Organizations spend time and money on security consultants to help them investigate their environments, but these are often only point-in-time engagements,…
ARGOS Cloud Security is a cloud security investigation tool designed to reduce the time teams spend analyzing security alerts. Built by a cloud security consultant with over 13 years of experience, it automates the… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. I made a cloud security product that actually saves time launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Contextualised Cloud Security in under 20 minutes
2021 · argos-security.io · its alternatives →
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Aikido Security▲856Secure everything you build, host, and run.
2025 · aikido.dev · its alternatives →
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After down detector went down with the rest of the internet during the Cloudflare outage today I decided to build a robust, independent tool which checks if down detector is down. Enjoy!!
Nov 2025 · downdetectorsdowndetector.com · 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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Cloud spend visibility tool Finally Get Clarity On Cloud Spend Without Hours Lost In Dashboards
2018 · cloudforecast.io · 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: 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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Flarehawk▲81Monitors security tools, probes threats, + prompts action
Feb 2026 · flarehawk.com · its alternatives →
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Hey folks, my name is Owen and I recently started working at a startup (https://infracost.io/) that shows engineers how much their code changes are going to cost on the cloud before being deployed (in CI/CD like GitHub or GitLab). Previously, I was one of the founders of tfsec (it scanned code for security issues). One of the things I learnt was if we catch issues early, i.e. when the engineer was typing their code, we save a bunch of time. I was thinking … okay, why not build cloud costs into the code editor. Show the cloud cost impact of the code as the engineers are…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I built this because I was tired of spending 20-30 minutes investigating every CloudWatch alarm that fired. AWS just released CloudWatch Investigations (June 2025) which does similar things, but requires significant setup and lives in the console. Mine takes a different approach. CloudWatch AI Agent: When an alarm fires, an AI agent autonomously investigates and sends findings to Slack. Deploy via Terraform in 5 minutes. How it works: - Terraform module (Apache 2.0) deploys Lambda + SNS integration - Alarm triggers → AI agent queries your AWS environment (read-only) - Analyzes…
Jan 2026 · aiopscrew.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I’m excited to share something we’ve been working on: Cloud Troubleshooting Labs. This tool provides on-demand environments for engineers to practice hands-on troubleshooting with AWS, GCP, Azure, and Kubernetes. What it does: We use Pulumi to spin up these environments. Each scenario includes a diagram and an explanation of the available IT infrastructure. Engineers are tasked with fixing configuration issues to make the application work. Depending on the test type, the environment could range from a simple terminal to a full cloud environment or a web-based VSCode. Many of our…
2024 · brokee.io · its alternatives →
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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 →
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GuardKite▲13AWS Cloud Security Made Simple and Accessible for Everyone
2025 · guardkite.com · its alternatives →
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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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Hi, we’re Lukas, Lars and Matthias, and we're building “Fix” (https://fix.security). Fix is an open source cloud asset inventory for developers to track their infrastructure’s security posture aka “cloud security posture management” (CSPM). How Fix works: Fix takes a snapshot of your inventory on an hourly basis by calling the cloud APIs, runs policy and compliance checks such as the CIS benchmark against that inventory, and provides the findings in a dashboard, via .csv export or API so that developers can use the raw data and build workflows. We’re also working on data sync to S3…
2024 · fix.security · its alternatives →
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I run 3mins.news (https://3mins.news), an AI news aggregator built entirely on Cloudflare Workers. The backend has 10+ cron triggers running every few minutes: RSS fetching, article clustering, LLM calls, email delivery. The problem: Workers Paid Plan has hard monthly limits (10M requests, 1M KV writes, 1M queue ops, etc.). There's no built-in "pause when you hit the limit", CF just starts billing overages. KV writes cost $5/M over the cap, so a retry loop bug can get expensive fast. AWS has Budget Alerts, but those are passive notifications, by the time you read the email,…
Mar 2026 · its alternatives →
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Hello Hacker News! We’re Willem, Roeland, Felix and Madeline from Aikido Security (https://aikido.dev/) We’re building a “no BS’ application security platform. It’s the platform we wish existed, but couldn’t find. Willem, our CTO had to manage (application) security at many of his previous startups, and honestly, hated it. Most security tools we had to use made us feel dumb. They were super complex and riddled with false positives. Their platform was behind the book a demo button. They had intransparent pricing models and honestly charged us way too much. We think most of…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Next-gen real-time CSPM to Identify, prioritize & remediate critical cloud security risks across AWS, Azure, Google cloud & Oracle cloud
2015 · cloudsploit.com · its alternatives →
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