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Show HN: 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 resources (currently supports AWS EC2 & RDS)
- start / stop button, allowing users to override the schedule (eg. if working on weekends).
Next up on the feature roadmap is:
- Intelligent start / stop functionality for non-production resources - resources will automatically stop when not in use and quickly spin back up when needed, resulting in lots more delicious cost savings!
- Support for more cloud providers and resource types (eg. ECS, K8s, etc.)
We're really happy we get to show this to you all, thank you for reading about it! Please let us know your thoughts and questions in the comments.
Many thanks,
Sri & Brian
- adevbrat 4y ago
- serkudiki 4y ago
- swamy_g 4y agoCongrats Sri and Brian! This looks very useful.
- dojokiwi 4y ago
- prasann 4y agovery useful indeed. will be following this product development
- SLawlor82 4y agoWell done Sri & Brian, love a bit of cost management! Best of luck with this.
- priyaaank 4y agoLooks useful!
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- Naxes 4y agoWell done SPK!
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- Komodai 4y agoAre Naxes, SLawlor82 and mia2670 your friends? Or your accounts?
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- sriprasanna 4y agoMy friends actually.
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- KronisLV 4y agoThe large amount of similar comments by new accounts makes this seem a bit iffy. Especially given that most of those comments were flagged. Good luck on your project, though.
- sriprasanna 4y agoThanks very much.
- ArchOversight 4y agoAt $WORK we use a tool named Cloud Custodian that does this, and can do so for almost all resources. We use it almost exclusively for EC2 and other resources in our dev account where at midnight EST it shuts down all resources. Users can override it by adding a custom tag to their resources to change the hours or not have the workload shut down. It's reduced our AWS costs tremendously. Since we heavily push using terraform even for dev stuff, users can quickly re-spin up their instances, fix DNS records and the like with a terraform apply to get back up and running when they get back to their desk.
- sriprasanna 4y agoYou are absolutely correct. Cloud Custodian is a great tool and some of customers had similar tools built internally. However the real pain point was the maintenance part of these and especially companies with limited cloud expertise, hence they like CloudPal's appeal. Another primary reason for them to prefer CloudPal is that most software engineers can use CloudPal without a lot of IaC or AWS knowledge such as tagging resources.
- reachbharathan 4y agoThis will be very useful feature Sriprasanna, In my previous stint even non production environment monthly cost were upto 8000 usd per month, due to the amount of services we were using. Kudos to go.
- maikeffi 4y agoCongrats Sri & Brain ...
- srebeatz 4y agoGood idea, this can be out of box solution for many organisations with limited team size. Will defo look forward for the smartness of system for self start/stop on the demand over the CRON'd approach along with cost analysis reports how much the system saves with/without (this would help to convince the managers ;) ) along with suggestion on reserved/saving plans and many more... All the very best on the project Sri and Brian. _Eyes on this_
- lpatra 4y agoThis is a great initiative. It will not only save customers money but save environment by preventing energy wastage. All the best!
- preemish5 4y ago
- ranedk 4y agoThis looks very interesting Sri. Congrats on the launch.
- sowdilana 4y agoCutting AWS costs have been crucial in many of the projects I have worked recently. Great to offload some of the work to the tools like this! Congratulations and All the best Sri & Brain
- alexnavis 4y agoCongrats on the launch. Looking forward to try this out.
- allynjalford 4y agoI have code written into business processes that do that. It would be great to have a dashboard visual with buttons.
- eoghanoloughlin 4y agoNice one Sri! Looking forward to seeing this grow. Great idea.
- dibarreno 4y agoGreat product and fit! It has high investment potential.