The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica Building the Open Source Alternative to AWS
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Feb 19, 2026 Umur Cubukcu, co-founder of UbiCloud and long-time Postgres entrepreneur, discusses building an open-source control plane for cloud services. He covers what an open cloud means in practice. Topics include which cloud components must be open. They also discuss storage portability, egress barriers, running AI workloads, and UbiCloud’s product mix and roadmap.
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Enterprises Value Sovereignty
- Enterprises prioritize control and data privacy, especially regulated industries like banking.
- UbiCloud's self-host or managed options let enterprises retain security posture and sovereignty.
Use Specialist Postgres For Performance
- Replace managed Postgres on hyperscalers with a specialist managed Postgres for better performance.
- Expect significant speed gains by running tuned Postgres on newer NVMe-backed instances.
ClickHouse Partnership Example
- UbiCloud partnered with ClickHouse to power a Postgres service for ClickHouse customers.
- The collaboration feeds improvements upstream into the UbiCloud open-source control plane.