Using the large cloud computing providers is convenient, but not exactly cheap. Ubicloud, a new startup founded by the team behind Citus Data, which
  • Ubicloud aims to provide an open source alternative to AWS by offering core cloud computing services on affordable bare-metal servers.
  • The focus is currently on compute, PostgreSQL database service, networking capabilities, with plans to add block storage and Kubernetes-based container service.
  • Co-founders have experience with Citus Data and Azure, and the company recently raised a $16 million seed round.
  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    There’s a lot more to a tier 1 hyperscaler like AWS, Azure, and GCP compared to the lower tier providers and its not ONLY on price. However here’s the pricing bit I was interested in.

    Pricing

    “Each VM has a monthly egress quota of 0.625TB per 2 vCPUs. If you exceed this limit, we will charge you $3 per TB of egress traffic. We don’t charge for ingress traffic or traffic between your resources within the same cloud region.”