Flex Compute
Cutting Cloud Compute Costs Without the Handcuffs
Published on:
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Khursheed Hassan
After years building AWS and EC2 infrastructure from the inside, I witnessed firsthand the excessive margins layered onto cloud compute and storage. What shocked me most wasn’t just the high prices, but how customers were forced into long-term commitments to get any meaningful savings.
Let’s look at a concrete example: A m6i.2xlarge (8 vCPU, 32GiB memory) instance costs around $0.384/hour or $280.32/month at On-Demand rates in US East. To get upwards of 50% discount, you’d need to commit to a 3-year Compute Savings Plan at ~$142.17/month. That’s thousands of dollars locked in for 36 months, without knowing how your future needs will fluctuate.
That’s why I founded Cloudidr. Our mission is simple: dramatically reduce your EC2 and compute costs without trapping you in 1–3 year reserved instances or savings plans.
Through our proprietary cloud arbitrage technology, we deliver up to 40% cost savings with zero migration effort required. Your workloads stay in your AWS account, with all your security controls intact. You just pay less.
The cloud revolution promised flexibility, but the pricing models evolved to favor long-term lock-in. They are simply not tuned to the majority of non-static workloads. I believe now is the time that someone changed that equation.
We’re currently offering 14–90 days of free access to select early users willing to provide feedback on our platform. DM me or send an email to vip-pass@cloudidr.com to get this access (yes passes are limited). If you believe in our mission, visit, upvote, and like us.
~Khursheed (Founder Cloudidr)
PS. Join us in building a more affordable cloud ecosystem.