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Stop bleeding money on cloud infrastructure

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You've built an infrastructure on cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.).

It's the end of the month and you get the bill. It's not too bad, but it's more than what you expected. The next months, the bill stays as high or even grows bigger and bigger!

Now imaging there is a platform that gives you full visibility over your cloud costs in the simplest form with various high-level and low-level categorisations. A platform that offers you actionable AI-powered recommendations to reduce your cloud costs significantly.

We're building that platform. It's called CloudReclaim (https://cloudreclaim.com).

Stop sponsoring billionaires with over-paying for your cloud infrastructure! You can fill in this form to join our waiting list:

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Thanks for sharing your project! Cloud costs have gotten ridiculously out of control (an Andreessen Horowitz report estimates that the excess cost of public cloud is $500 billion per year [1]) and it's great to see more projects tackling this problem.

I'm curious to see if you plan on implementing automation, or if the tool is focused on recommendations? We've built a tool at Usage.AI that automatically buys and sells Reserved Instances on AWS to cut costs [2].

Anyway, good luck with your project!

[1] https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap...

[2] http://usage.ai

Companies don't understand technology. They understand buzzwords.

There's a checkbox to put the legacy system in the cloud, with no requirement that the system's design adjust to account for modern design principles, scalability, or cost.

CEO: Just put it in the cloud now!

A coworker once called this absurdity, "lift and shift".

It's definitely a lot more than just a lift and shift.

The companies are really struggling with managing their costs on cloud.

So far we haven't dealt with a single customer, from individuals to enterprise companies, who has been using their cloud resources even relatively efficiently.

I see a button for a waiting list, but not price or a list of supported clouds. Have you launched?

Yes, it's being used by a closed group of customers.

There are 4 questions in the form and the last one is about any questions you might have from us.

Feel free to fill in the form and I'll send you all the details you need to know.

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