Clusterk

ClusterK was a cloud cost-optimization startup founded in 2013 in Palo Alto, California by Dmitry Pushkarev. Its software let AWS users run production and batch workloads on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances at up to 90% savings versus on-demand pricing, by predicting spot-market prices and continuously rebalancing capacity across instance types. ClusterK shipped two products: ClusterK Balancer, which arbitraged the AWS Spot Market for cost savings, and ClusterK Cirrus, a cloud-native HPC grid scheduler. The company was backed by DCVC (Data Collective), Rally Ventures, and the Mayo Clinic Business Accelerator, raising roughly $1.2M. Amazon acquired ClusterK in April 2015 and absorbed the team and technology into AWS; the company no longer operates independently and publishes no public API, SDK, or developer surface. This profile is retained as a historical portfolio-company record.

Clusterk is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cost Optimization, and EC2 Spot Instances.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

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description: 'ClusterK was a cloud cost-optimization startup founded in 2013 in Palo Alto, California by Dmitry Pushkarev.
  Its software let AWS users run production and batch workloads on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances at up to 90% savings versus on-demand
  pricing, by predicting spot-market prices and continuously rebalancing capacity across instance types. ClusterK shipped
  two products: ClusterK Balancer, which arbitraged the AWS Spot Market for cost savings, and ClusterK Cirrus, a cloud-native
  HPC grid scheduler. The company was backed by DCVC (Data Collective), Rally Ventures, and the Mayo Clinic Business Accelerator,
  raising roughly $1.2M. Amazon acquired ClusterK in April 2015 and absorbed the team and technology into AWS; the company
  no longer operates independently and publishes no public API, SDK, or developer surface. This profile is retained as a historical
  portfolio-company record.'
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