LocalOps vs. Cycloid

LocalOps offers a modern, cloud-agnostic internal developer platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency of engineering teams working with AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure, especially those who face challenges due to a lack of DevOps skills or experience delays in release cycles caused by DevOps-related issues. This platform allows teams to enjoy a developer experience akin to that of Vercel, Fly, or Heroku, all within the confines of their own cloud infrastructure. By connecting their AWS, GCP, or Azure accounts and integrating their GitHub repositories, teams can deploy services in under 30 minutes without the cumbersome tasks of manually configuring AWS resources, writing Dockerfiles, establishing CI/CD pipelines, or crafting Terraform scripts. They benefit from self-service access to AWS, which facilitates automatic deployments via Git push, and can track logs and metrics right away through a pre-configured open-source monitoring suite that features Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki. Moreover, they have the capability to scale resources infinitely within their cloud account at a lower cost, utilizing any available cloud credits to offset the costs of cloud resources. This streamlined approach empowers teams to deploy, monitor, automate, and scale their applications effortlessly, enhancing productivity in their own cloud environments, ultimately leading to a more agile development process.

Cycloid is an Internal Developer Portal and Platform with modules around self-service and platform orchestration, project lifecycle and resource management, FinOps and GreenOps and plugins. It can be consumed through the console, in CLI or in API. Cycloid focuses on platform engineering done right. We optimize the developer experience and operational efficiency by accelerating the delivery of a portal and platform, alleviating the cognitive load on IT teams and advocating for FinOps & Green IT practices. With our Internal Developer Portal and Platform, you don’t need to start from scratch to get a fully customized solution. Platform teams design, build and run the platform enabling end-users to visualize, deploy and manage existing and new projects, interact with cutting-edge DevOps and Cloud automation without the need to become an expert, while keeping best practices in place, cloud expenses under control with a minimum carbon footprint. We are also the editor of Open Source projects such as TerraCognita, reverse Terraform, InfraMap, infra diagram and Terracost, cost estimation. We work with Global organizations, US and EU public institutions, scale ups across America, Europe and Asia. 6 of the top 10 System Integrator and Managed Services Providers are working with us as a customer and/or as a partner.