October 2021 Summaries

Qovery has partnered with Usage AI to help users significantly reduce their AWS bills through strategies that optimize compute and storage costs. Key strategies include using ephemeral environments, which can cut development environment costs by up to 90% by creating and destroying environments as needed, and implementing start and stop schedules that automatically shut down development environments outside of working hours, saving up to 77%. Application auto-scaling allows for a more modest 5% cost reduction by automatically adjusting resources to match demand, while infrastructure auto-scaling offers up to 100% savings by shutting down unused development clusters. These methods prioritize cost efficiency, particularly in development environments, although they may introduce challenges such as cold starts and are not suitable for production environments.

Qovery, a Paris-based startup founded in 2019, offers DevOps automation software that enables developers to effortlessly deploy applications to cloud platforms like AWS, Digital Ocean, and Scaleway by simply pushing code to a repository such as GitHub. Having attracted over 10,000 developers worldwide, Qovery's efficient approach eliminates the need for complex cloud infrastructure management, allowing developers to focus on coding. The company recently secured $4 million in funding led by Crane and Speedinvest, with notable contributions from Techstars and industry figures like Alexis Le-Quoc of Datadog. This funding will bolster Qovery's engineering, sales, and marketing teams and support the addition of Google Cloud Platform to its services. Investors and users alike praise Qovery's ability to provide flexibility and power akin to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) while maintaining the simplicity of Platform as a Service (PaaS).