Hello HN community! Sri and Brian here from CloudPal (https://www.cloudpal.io/). We are building a tool to help companies reduce their cloud costs by stopping non-production resources when they’re not needed.

The problem: Almost every company on the cloud struggles with cost management. While optimizing production costs can be complex, reducing non-production costs should be a straightforward case of shutting down resources when they’re not in use. However, most companies lack an elegant solution for this.

The solution: CloudPal

- A downtime scheduler for non-production resources (currently supports AWS EC2 & RDS)

- start / stop button, allowing users to override the schedule (eg. if working on weekends).

Next up on the feature roadmap is:

- Intelligent start / stop functionality for non-production resources - resources will automatically stop when not in use and quickly spin back up when needed, resulting in lots more delicious cost savings!

- Support for more cloud providers and resource types (eg. ECS, K8s, etc.)

We're really happy we get to show this to you all, thank you for reading about it! Please let us know your thoughts and questions in the comments.

Many thanks,

Sri & Brian