Using the large cloud computing providers is convenient, but not exactly cheap. Ubicloud, a new startup founded by the team behind Citus Data, which
Ubicloud aims to provide an open source alternative to AWS by offering core cloud computing services on affordable bare-metal servers.
The focus is currently on compute, PostgreSQL database service, networking capabilities, with plans to add block storage and Kubernetes-based container service.
Co-founders have experience with Citus Data and Azure, and the company recently raised a $16 million seed round.
I feel like most open source stuff seems to choose terrible names. Like the creators mainly just care about the principle of it being open source, so they come up with trash UI, trash UX, and trash branding.