Ubicloud provides an open-source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) alternative to proprietary public clouds, leveraging bare metal providers for cost reduction. The platform offers managed services like PostgreSQL and ephemeral runners for GitHub Actions, alongside elastic compute and block storage. This approach returns infrastructure control to users while significantly lowering operational expenses and avoiding vendor lock-in.
Funding
$16M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
5EEFounders
Product
Problem
Traditional cloud providers offer convenience but often come with high costs, closed-source solutions, and vendor lock-in, limiting control over infrastructure and increasing expenses for startups and enterprises.
Solution
Ubicloud provides an open-source cloud infrastructure solution that operates on bare metal providers, such as Hetzner, Leaseweb, and AWS Bare Metal, allowing users to either self-manage their environments or utilize a managed service. This approach reduces cloud costs and eliminates vendor lock-in, returning control of the infrastructure to the user without sacrificing the convenience of cloud services. Ubicloud offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features, including elastic compute, virtual networking, block storage, and managed PostgreSQL, all designed to reduce costs and provide greater flexibility.
Target Audience
Ubicloud targets startups and enterprises seeking to reduce cloud costs, avoid vendor lock-in, and regain control over their infrastructure.
Features
- Elastic Compute: Provision, use, and delete isolated Virtual Machines (VMs) on bare metal.
- Virtual Networking: Public and private networking with IPv4 and IPv6 support, flexible firewall rules, and network load balancer.
- Block Storage: Non-replicated block devices with encryption at rest.
- Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC): Define roles for different users and provide fine-grained access control.
- Managed PostgreSQL: Access to the latest PostgreSQL versions with automatic backups, point-in-time-restore (PITR), and high availability.
- GitHub Actions Integration: Managed Ubicloud runners for cost-effective, isolated, and ephemeral VMs for each job.
- Encryption in transit.