TL;DR: Kura integrates directly with services like AWS, helping software teams respond to incidents, provision infrastructure, and optimize complex cloud systems.

Hello YC! We’re Trevor and Mark, founders of Kura. After building distributed systems for a combined ~15 years at places like Google and NASA, we know the challenges and triumphs of cloud-based products. We started Kura with the core belief that recent AI advancements can unlock the potential of software teams building on the cloud.

What’s the problem?

As web apps become increasingly core to the world, maintaining cloud infrastructure requires increasingly more time and resources.

• Distributed systems are getting more complex than ever
• Managed solutions trade off ease against control and cost
• Cloud infra engineers are few and far between, leaving much of the work to teams who may not have extensive cloud experience

What can Kura do?

Kura is a chatbot and workspace that integrates directly with a live index of your cloud infra from services like AWS, GCP, and Azure.

Kura can answer questions about your cloud system, providing links and live information for queries like:

• “Is my main API cluster healthy?”
• “Which container version is running in prod?”
• “Can you help me deploy a new container via CDK?”

Kura can run pre-packaged and user-defined “runbooks” to proactively surface issues via notifications. For example:

• Scheduled checks for over/under-utilized computing resources
• Discovering and surfacing cost spikes and trends
• Searching for common security vulnerabilities

With Kura, software teams can build faster and more confidently on the cloud, all while maintaining full control of their critical infrastructure.

Our ask:

• If your team is building on the cloud and would like to learn more or sign up as a pilot customer, please reach out to founders@usekura.com.
• If you know software teams or developers running into roadblocks due to cloud complexity, please send this post their way - we’d love to chat and learn more!
• Follow us at @kura_labs to follow along on the journey!