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Life & fun · June 15, 2022

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Cut your AWS costs by stopping non-production resources when not needed

Hello HN community! Sri and Brian here from CloudPal (https://www.cloudpal.io/). We are building a tool to help companies reduce their cloud costs by stopping non-production resources when they’re not needed. The problem: Almost every company on the cloud struggles with cost management. While optimizing production costs can be complex, reducing non-production costs should be a straightforward case of shutting down resources when they’re not in use. However, most companies lack an elegant solution for this. The solution: CloudPal - A downtime scheduler for non-production…

Cut your AWS costs by stopping non-production resources when not needed launched on June 15, 2022 with 59 votes, #768 of 3,005 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

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CloudPal is a downtime scheduler that helps companies reduce AWS costs by automatically stopping non-production resources like EC2 and RDS instances when not in use. It targets organizations struggling with cloud cost management and provides start/stop controls with manual override options for cases like weekend work. The tool addresses the gap between complex production optimization and simpler non-production resource management.

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Hello HN community! Sri and Brian here from CloudPal (https://www.cloudpal.io/). We are building a tool to help companies reduce their cloud costs by stopping non-production resources when they’re not needed. The problem: Almost every company on the cloud struggles with cost management. While…

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