Cloudthread - Cloud cost efficiency, engineering-first

As a longtime lurker and first time Maker, I couldn’t be more excited to share what we’ve been building at Cloudthread and get feedback from this amazing community of builders and innovators. Infinite thanks to those who have already been users of Cloudthread for your support, trust, and feedback. Excited to talk to anybody else that wants to create a cost conscious engineering organization! Don’t hesitate to reach out - daniele@cloudthread.io Shoutout to @iliasemenov @thomasyopes @vipin_cloudthread @renaudvisage

Hey folks!👋 First of all, huge thanks to @gustaf for hunting us here and supporting our team during the past several months! I'm Ilia (I-L-I-A), co-founder of Cloudthread. During the past 8 years we were building cloud cost management systems at the companies like EA and Lyft, and are now on the quest to help every engineering team out there achieve ultimate cost efficiency in the cloud☁️💸🧘‍♀️ ☁️ What is it all about? It is about building in cloud – AWS, GCP, Azure, etc. – and doing it efficiently. Cloud adoption has been going strong for the past decade, and nowadays most software is powered by major cloud providers. Even if you are far from cloud development, but are using some non-free software, you help to pay the developer's cloud bill. 💸 What is wrong with cloud cost efficiency? Well, in most cases, it is not efficient enough🤷‍♂️ Many companies still do not have cloud cost management practices in place (paying $$$), and those that do mostly take advantage of discounting mechanisms that cloud providers have (paying $$), while only few - largest cloud users like Lyft or Netflix - invest heavily in optimization building sophisticated cost management systems (paying $). Why not everyone is as cost efficient as Lyft or Netflix? Two things in play: 1. Getting right cloud cost management processes and analytics is difficult and expensive 2. Cloud spend is not large enough to justify the effort Cloudthread product solves the first part as well as challenges the second. 🧘‍♀️ Solution Our team's domain expertise and the modern data engineering stack allow us to bring cloud cost management processes established at advanced companies to everyone out there. We’re building an analytics platform delivering low-level unit cost metrics (e.g. $ / query, $ / request, $ / API call) directly to engineering teams. This is the bottom-up cost management approach that makes the difference - equipping those who generate cloud spend with the right analytics. ⚙️ How it works We combine APM data with cloud billing data and get to the core of the system reporting. Check out how it works yourself - install our Slack bot and it will help you to get things set up. Remember, even if you are not building in the cloud yourself, you are still paying for someone else's inefficiencies. So, we are all interested in global cloud cost efficiency in the end. Thanks, Ilia and Cloudthread team ❤️

I was an AWS Solutions Architect for many years, working with different companies of all sizes and they all had issues with cost management. There are so many moving parts and constant evolution, it's really hard to keep track 🧐 I am glad to be a beta user of Cloudthread and use it at my own company to follow our costs as we scale! 🚀

Congratulations Cloudthread! Massive problem, ambitious vision, incredible team and sleek product - Excited to start using the Slackbot for my organization!

I was beta user of the slackbot. It was quite quick to set-up with AWS. For me it is a quick way of checking costs of our cloud usage. It has helped me to identify issues that might hinder scalability of the products that our startup offers. All in all a great idea! Exciting to see this becoming reality.

Awesome product guys! Trying to manage cloud costs is the worst part of working in the cloud, will definitely be checking Cloudthread out!

Congrats on the Launch! Providing Cost telemetry at such a granular level would be a game changer.

Hey guys, congrats on your launch! Cloudthread looks promising, and I like that you can dive into cost spikes to learn more. These spikes were a headache for our team in my previous job.

Wait, so you're telling me with this product, if I go to my head of engineering and ask what our cloud spend will be, they'll at least have some idea?

Cloud based startups and enterprises, definitely need this. It's so easy.