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Comment by redwood | Hacker News Reader

AWS and GCP are not full

Feels like an opportunity for building a service that uses AWS, GCP or Azure based on which is cheapest at that moment + which is not "full"... Unless that already exists.

The famous "multi cloud" or "cloud agnostic" thing. We're not there yet.

AWS, GCP & Azure still feel like a lot like PC, Amiga and Macintosh at this moment.

Lowest common denominator though. If you can use just plain old VMs, there's probably little value in using the big cloud vendors. Traditional hosting would be loads cheaper.

Really? Do you mean running your own data center or what services are you referring to?

No, not running your own data center. Traditional server hosting. Rackspace, Liquidweb, Packet.net and similar.

Meaning that if you're going to use the lowest common denominator, why not pay fair market prices for egress and compute?

Any value in cloud is typically the services that are higher level than a VM. Those services would be hard to put a generic multi-cloud facade in front of. It would be brittle and bug ridden.

For my UG project, I am building a platform to provision, monitor and manage cloud resources from cloud providers including AWS, Digitalocean and GCP through a single web interface.

The platform also have the ability to deploy commonly used web applications like WordPress, Moodle, etc.

I will launch here in HN when the platform is ready to launch.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please let me know.

UG=undergrad?

Neither are other cloud providers I could mention kof.

Plenty of us out there.

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