I started this week with a blogpost about kickstarting the business model for your webservice. Small companies start new web services on daily basis and need to turn a profit as soon as possible. For them  paying customers are one of the most important metrics to see if your service gains traction.
Qloudwatch gives non-technical people insight in the cloud usage by their team or company. Companies that run multiple projects on one Amazon account have a hard time breaking down the cost-structure of their operations. By gathering the historical data of amazon the costs per project can be mapped and tracked.
We’ve chosen to give Qloudwatch a de-central architecture. Basically this means that every individual has a personal (free) account which can be used to monitor his own cloud. Amazon resources will be grouped by projects, which can be created by users and shared with others. So we didn’t put corporate accounts in there, yet.
Qloudwatch will start as a monthly subscription based service. At first we’ll introduce three accounts. One free and two payed.
- Personal plan (free account): 1 project, monitor 2 EC2 instances per project, no sharing options on projects
- First payed plan: 4 projects, monitor max. 6 EC2 instances per project, sharing projects with max. 5 others
- Second payed plan: 8 projects, monitor max. 12 EC2 instances per project, sharing projects with max. 10 others
The plans above are the base subscription model. We envision more options in the plans in the future (for example we add S3 and other services). Also we’ll introduce alert systems that give alerts via various channels (payed and free). More information on how the business model evolves will be posted soon.