I'm Khursheed, former head of AWS Storage Devices and EC2 Capacity Products. After watching customers overpay for years, I built Cloudidr to solve the on-demand pricing problem.
The model: We buy Reserved Instance capacity in bulk from AWS, then resell it with no commitment required. Simple arbitrage. Customers get 30-50% off on-demand rates, we keep the margin.
The technical bit: Compute appears directly in YOUR AWS account, not ours. We transfer our pre-purchased capacity into your account. You manage it with your IAM, VPC, security groups. We never touch your infrastructure or data.
Setup takes 15 minutes. No migration. No re-platforming. Just cheaper AWS.
Why AWS allows this: They get guaranteed utilization through our Reserved Instance purchases. We take the risk of finding customers. Like airlines working with consolidators.
Trade-offs:
- Limited instance types (we buy what has best margins)
- Minimum 1-hour usage
- Not for true spot-level workloads
Who it's for: Indie hackers wanting real AWS instead of PaaS platforms. Startups burning cash on on-demand. Anyone running batch jobs, AI training, dev/test environments.
Pricing example: G6xlarge at $0.56/hr (vs $0.80 AWS on-demand).
Happy to get you going with a free trial.
Happy to answer questions about the arbitrage model, AWS integration, or anything else.
Hi HN,
I'm Khursheed, former head of AWS Storage Devices and EC2 Capacity Products. After watching customers overpay for years, I built Cloudidr to solve the on-demand pricing problem.
The model: We buy Reserved Instance capacity in bulk from AWS, then resell it with no commitment required. Simple arbitrage. Customers get 30-50% off on-demand rates, we keep the margin.
The technical bit: Compute appears directly in YOUR AWS account, not ours. We transfer our pre-purchased capacity into your account. You manage it with your IAM, VPC, security groups. We never touch your infrastructure or data.
Setup takes 15 minutes. No migration. No re-platforming. Just cheaper AWS.
Why AWS allows this: They get guaranteed utilization through our Reserved Instance purchases. We take the risk of finding customers. Like airlines working with consolidators.
Trade-offs: - Limited instance types (we buy what has best margins) - Minimum 1-hour usage - Not for true spot-level workloads
Who it's for: Indie hackers wanting real AWS instead of PaaS platforms. Startups burning cash on on-demand. Anyone running batch jobs, AI training, dev/test environments.
Pricing example: G6xlarge at $0.56/hr (vs $0.80 AWS on-demand).
Happy to get you going with a free trial.
Happy to answer questions about the arbitrage model, AWS integration, or anything else.