Upbound provides a managed service for Crossplane, a framework that enables organizations to build cloud-native control planes without writing code. This solution addresses the challenges of configuration drift and operational complexity in cloud infrastructure management, allowing platform engineers to maintain centralized governance while giving developers self-service access to resources.
Funding
$77M 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.
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Problem
Managing cloud infrastructure across multiple accounts and teams leads to configuration drift, operational complexity, and increased overhead for platform engineers. Enforcing consistent security, compliance, and cost control policies becomes challenging as the number of Crossplane deployments grows, diverting resources from core platform development.
Solution
Upbound provides a managed service for Crossplane, enabling organizations to build and scale cloud-native control planes without the burden of operational overhead. The platform abstracts cloud infrastructure as self-service APIs, empowering developers with on-demand access to resources while maintaining centralized governance. Upbound simplifies the lifecycle management of Crossplane, automating scaling, component upgrades, and core operations. This allows platform teams to focus on developing their cloud-native platforms, ensuring security, compliance, and cost control across all deployments.
Target Audience
Upbound targets platform engineers and organizations adopting cloud-native best practices who need to manage cloud infrastructure at scale while maintaining centralized control and empowering developers with self-service access.
Features
- Fully managed Crossplane service, handling lifecycle management and core operations
- Centralized control and governance across multiple cloud service providers and cloud-native tools
- Self-service APIs for developers to access infrastructure resources on demand
- Upbound IAM for managing access control across managed control planes
- Enterprise-grade security and governance features, including SSO, shared secret stores, and integrated backups
- Multi-control plane management with Control Plane Groups
- Integrated observability pipeline for monitoring and troubleshooting