Ubicloud

Open source alternative to AWS

Y CombinatorWinter 2024ActiveB2BInfrastructureCloud ComputingInfrastructureAIDatabases

What they do

Problem

Organizations pay high costs and face vendor lock-in when relying on proprietary hyperscale cloud platforms for core infrastructure services.

Solution

Ubicloud provides an open source, AWS-like cloud platform delivering compute, storage, networking, managed databases, Kubernetes, AI inference, and IAM that runs on bare metal providers or self-hosted.

Who it's for

Developers, startups, and enterprises that want AWS-style cloud services on cheaper bare metal or in their own environments.

Founders

Umur Cubukcu

Founder

Previously visiting partner at YC for W23 and S23; now co-founder at Ubicloud. Co-founder and CEO of Citus Data (S11), the creators of the distributed PostgreSQL database Citus. Led the PostgreSQL product team at Azure, after Citus Data was acquired in 2019 by Microsoft.

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Ozgun Erdogan

Founder

I’m the cofounder of Ubicloud (YC W24), an open source alternative to AWS. We're on a mission to rebuild the cloud market with different values. Previously, I was a partner at Microsoft, leading PostgreSQL engineering teams. I came to Microsoft through its acquisition of Citus Data (S11). I was the cofounder and CTO at Citus, and I learned a lot about doing startups there. Before all this, I built distributed systems at Amazon.

Daniel Farina

Founder

I am one of the founders of Ubicloud. I've contributed to a number of control planes from an early phase, starting at Heroku, in what would become Heroku Postgres. Since then, I've serially created new control planes and infrastructure cloud products with some close colleagues, at Citus Cloud and Crunchy Bridge. Ubicloud is the fourth such system.