Highlights:

  • The most extensively used IaC tool, Terraform, is thought to increase cloud infrastructure management’s uniformity and efficiency.
  • ControlMonkey claims that early adopters like Intel Corp. and NetApp Inc. have already seen a 30% increase in cloud productivity due to the combination of their solutions.

Terraform automation startup company ControlMonkey Ltd. raised USD seven million in the seed funding round spearheaded by Joule Ventures and Lool Ventures, which aligns with the platform’s worldwide launching.

Along with many angel investors, Gaia Ventures and its founder Deepak Krishnamurthy also participated.

With Terraform, a well-known infrastructure-as-code platform that enables businesses to define and provision cloud resources using configuration files rather than manual processes, the startup has developed a platform that uses generative artificial intelligence to automate routine tasks.

The most extensively used IaC tool, Terraform, is thought to increase cloud infrastructure management’s uniformity and efficiency. Nevertheless, users still have to invest a lot of time and energy in creating those configuration files, which is where ControlMonkey believes it may be useful.

With the use of generative AI code development, our cloud automation technology can immediately deploy current cloud infrastructure anywhere by re-engineering it into production-grade Terraform code. In order to ensure that the code is always optimized, it combines this with a remediation engine that continuously checks the existing infrastructure code to address issues like drift, cost concerns, and security flaws.

Among its other features is a self-service “QualityGate” tool that generates a library of pre-made cloud infrastructure blueprints, allowing teams to quickly start new cloud environments. By taking a daily snapshot of a business’s current cloud configurations, its infrastructure disaster recovery features minimize any possible failures or deletions and allow them to be restored to any point in time.

ControlMonkey claims that early adopters like Intel Corp. and NetApp Inc. have already seen a 30% increase in cloud productivity due to the combination of these solutions, which also resulted in three times faster deployment timelines and 50% fewer production tickets. The startup, which recently announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc., aims to expand its platform to all industries.

The creators of the startup have extensive experience with cloud automation. It is headed by Ori Yemini, a founding engineer of NetApp Inc., and Aharon Twizer, a Co-founder of Spot.io Inc., which was later purchased by NetApp Inc. for USD 450 million. They contributed to the development of innovative technologies at Spot that use advanced analytics to optimize cloud infrastructure resources, find the cheapest spot instances, and increase computing resource efficiency.

The founders claim that their current focus is on revolutionizing the delivery of cloud infrastructure.  “Just like GitHub and Jfrog revolutionized software delivery, ControlMonkey is transforming the cloud industry by making infrastructure delivery as easy to manage as software,” Twizer said.

According to him, ControlMonkey will use the funding to develop its cloud governance products and to grow its engineering and customer success teams.

Maya Azoulay, a partner at Lool Ventures, stated that ControlMonkey’s platform might be “truly revolutionary” for the IaC market. “It’s harnessing the power of AI to deliver total control, end-to-end, at any scale,” she said. “Every enterprise and every industry needs this solution.”