Kubecost helps firms monitor, optimize their Kubernetes and cloud spend [Video]

00:00 Hi everybody. Welcome to DEMO, the show where companies come in and they show us their latest products and platforms. Today, I’m joined by Andrew Dawson. He is a solutions engineer at Kubecost. Welcome to the show, Andrew.

 00:09Thanks a lot, Keith.

 00:10So what are you going to show us today? What is Kubecost?

 00:13Kubecost is actually a finops, or a financial operations platform that companies self-deploy within their own cloud accounts to track their Kubernetes and their cloud spend, essentially to understand what they’re spending across AWS, Azure, Google, or on premise Kubernetes, as well as other cloud services, and then potentially save money by optimizing those cloud services.

 00:35Is cloud spending out of control over the last couple of years, and that’s why this was developed?

00:40Yeah, absolutely. I mean, for the last 10 years, it’s been growing exponentially, and people have been using finops tools. But with the introduction of Kubernetes …