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24 alternatives to I made DevOps as productized service

I'm normal contractor programmer, for the past few years doing mainly DevOps on AWS. I noticed lot of smaller companies don't have enough work for full-time devops person nor they have cloud/aws knowledge on the team. Lot of them has similar needs. So my thinking is I can help them for flat montly fee to do all the infrastructure on AWS for them. Obviously this is no way to get rich but my hope is to streamline my process and avoid chasing invoices etc. What do you think?

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I made DevOps as productized service launched in 2024; 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 →

  2. 2

    Unlimited AWS infrastructure requests for agile businesses

    2023 · its alternatives →

  3. 3IB

    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 →

  4. 4

    Developer-first AWS infrastructure

    2023 · ravion.com · its alternatives →

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    nOps▲132

    Reduce your AWS costs by 50% on auto-pilot

    2022 · nops.io · its alternatives →

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    Seeking Opportunities With Culture Calla Dev seeks investment opportunities that follows the Independent Sponsor & Operating Partner model approach – investment evaluation and execution. Contact us We are seeking opportunities in the following sectors Service Companies Real Estate Technology W

    2021 · calladev.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7SP

    Several years ago, I had a client whose salespeople were using Excel to generate sales proposals. This was inefficient and the resulting documents looked awful, so I developed a new process for them using a no-code platform. It featured a web form that was tied to a workflow engine, and a fancy PDF got emailed to the customer to sign. When the client loved the solution, I knew I was on to something. However, the no-code platform wasn't very customizable, so I decided to rebuild the process as a SaaS product. The client's CTO wanted in and we became cofounders. Today, we passed the…

    2021 · its alternatives →

  8. 8U2

    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 →

  9. 9WB

    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 →

  10. 10
    OpsFlow▲148

    Build your stack visually, no-code DevOps

    2022 · opsflow.app · its alternatives →

  11. 11
    Tim▲115

    AWS cost management for busy developers

    2019 · taloflow.ai · its alternatives →

  12. 12
    SetOps▲313

    Cloud deployment made for developers

    2022 · its alternatives →

  13. 13

    Code to cloud in minutes

    2022 · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    Get rid of your backlog with an external dev team

    2019 · its alternatives →

  15. 15
    PipeOps▲102

    No code tool for cloud deployment & infrastructure mgmt

    2023 · pipeops.io · its alternatives →

  16. 16AB

    Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We launched a new free tool to help engineers understand their AWS spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up end up becoming cloud accountants or end up forking over a big % of their AWS bill for a tool to understand 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 this new tool works: It's fully self-serve and…

    2022 · its alternatives →

  17. 17CS

    Hello HN! Daniele, Ilia, and Thomas here to share Cloudthread’s new Cost Savings Hub to help companies surface and eliminate cloud waste. We’re putting our money where our mouth is: for the next two weeks, find over $500 in monthly AWS savings with Cloudthread’s Savings Hub or we’ll give you a $100 Amazon Gift Card. More context: https://www.cloudthread.io/aws-save-or-get-paid Most cloud infrastructure managers know there’s waste in their cloud environment but it’s challenging and time consuming to 1) surface all the waste, 2) convert those opportunities into actualized…

    2023 · cloudthread.io · its alternatives →

  18. 18

    Do’s & don’ts for first-time founders building on AWS

    2022 · guides.digger.dev · its alternatives →

  19. 19

    Save money for cloud resources up to 60%

    2018 · its alternatives →

  20. 20IM

    Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend by buying and selling 3-year no-upfront reserved instances. Why? Because there's almost no liquidity on the AWS EC2 RI Marketplace and it can take a while, if at all, to sell an RI if you need to stop using one. Previous to founding Usage, I worked at JPMorgan Chase as a summer analyst. 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, typically we do this live…

    2023 · its alternatives →

  21. 21

    Deploy your app in minutes with serverless architecture

    2023 · scaletozeroaws.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    Unlimited AWS Infrastructure Requests for Growing Businesses

    2023 · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    Hi HackerNews, Ruslan here. I once posted here a story how I got AWS $4k surprise bill for one day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31907374), which is why I built DollarDeploy. I believe 95% of apps don't need complicated AWS infrastructure and can be hosted using simple server from Hetzner, Digital Ocean, etc. Today I am launching an AI agent on DollarDeploy. The AI agent can automatically build and deploy your NextJS/React, Go, Rust, or other types of apps to your own servers, running all commands via SSH on your server. You just type your commands or paste your…

    2025 · dollardeploy.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24
    Pylon▲22

    DevOps as a Service

    2024 · pylonops.com · its alternatives →

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