When Your Startup Grows, Portability is Key [feedly]

When Your Startup Grows, Portability is Key
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We are seeing a lot of successful startups that have used Amazon Web Services (AWS) from the very beginning, but as their businesses have grown they are now starting to reevaluate their infrastructure and are specifically interested in reconciling both cost and risk.

AWS is an incredible resource for early stage companies that need a cost effective and easily accessible infrastructure to use for development, but when that development effort turns to production, and when that production environment becomes mission critical, issues begin to arise. Many of the companies we're talking with are now spending between $100k-$500k/month with AWS, and not only has this spend begun to spiral, but their risk profile has increased exponentially in parallel. These companies need a way to balance risk, manage costs, and not degrade their developers "as-a-Service" experience and this is where CumuLogic enters the picture.

With the CumuLogic platform, companies can manage their resources (off-premise or on) via a single console that not only affords the opportunity to manage virtual machines (VMs), but also manage or migrate entire application stacks or application services like Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS). One of the high-value aspects of AWS is their ability to abstract even the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (compute/storage) layer with up-stack services like Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, OpsWorks, ElastiCache and Elastic Load Balancing. What makes these services valuable is the time savings associated with no longer having to configure VMs for a specific task, like database, but simply request a service and let the platform do all the work. Anyone that has come to rely on AWS has undoubtedly come to rely on services like RDS also. This all plays out extremely well until you reach a point where you'd like to either build your own infrastructure or would like to leverage another service provider in addition to AWS. With the CumuLogic platform, you can achieve all of this "up-stack" as-a-Service functionality without being held hostage by AWS. Effectively, you can use the CumuLogic Console as your portal to any infrastructure (including AWS) and still reap the benefit of using up-stack services like RDS, OpsWorks, SQS and more. In using the CumuLogic Console, the business wins because it is now containing costs, managing risk and keeping AWS honest and the developers win because they are experiencing zero degradation of experience with all the similar functionality to which they have become accustomed.

- Mike Soby, CumuLogic CEO