The Control Plane, Demystified
Learn what goes into building a modern control plane — and how it fundamentally differs from traditional DevOps tools, IaC platforms or App hosting platforms.
What it takes to build a SaaS Control Plane
Building a "proper" Control Plane is a complex and time-consuming task. It involves managing tenants, building multi-cloud ACID-compliant infrastructure management, enabling tenant-aware application deployments, and automating operations from scaling, patching, security controls, monitoring, durability, observability, alerting, metering and billing with marketplace integrations.
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Why Building SaaS Control Planes Demands More Than CI/CD, IaC, or PaaS
CI/CD Systems | Internal Developer Platform (IDP) | IaC Platform | PaaS (App Hosting) | Omnistrate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Code Build/Test (CI) | |||||
| Continuous Delivery and GitOps Integration | (Infra only) | ||||
| Tenant Management with Enterprise Auth | |||||
| Self-serve Deployment Portal | (Single-tenant) | ||||
| Flexible Hosting Models (our account, your account, your customers' account) | |||||
| Security Controls, Governance and Upgrades | (Single-tenant) | (Single-tenant for Infra only) | |||
| IaC Management with Drift Detection | (Single-tenant) | (Single-tenant) | |||
| Multi-Cloud Infra Abstraction | |||||
| Native support for AI / ML Workloads | (Scheduling only) | (Scheduling only) | (Scheduling only) | ||
| AI-powered Ops Automation (Scaling, Recovery, Monitoring) | (Single-tenant for simple apps) | ||||
| E2E Observability across Tenants, Infra & Deployments | (App only) | ||||
| SaaS Billing with Marketplace Integration | |||||
| Cost Insights and Controls | (Single-tenant) | ||||
| Native SaaS Integrations (Observability, Alerting, Auth etc.) |
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Our Customer Stories
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Peter Farkas
CEO, Ferret DB
By choosing Omnistrate, you're not just getting a control plane—you're getting a decade of expertise, an enterprise-grade cloud foundation, and a proven path to success. Instead of spending valuable time hiring and training a control plane team, you can launch faster, reduce costs, and focus on growing your business from day one.
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Mitch Patin
CEO, Inquery
We were able to build our Inquery SaaS within few minutes as opposed to months
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Vinay Mamidi
CEO, Whiteswan Security
Security startups don't have time or resources to reinvent cloud infrastructure. Omnistrate allowed us to run a scalable SaaS in weeks—not years—without experienced DevOps personnel on staff, so we could focus on what matters: securing our customers.
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Di Qi
CEO, Lantern
Omnistrate has been instrumental in our journey to monetizing our software. It simplified the complex process of SaaS development, saving us months of infrastructure engineering effort.
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Neil Thombre
VP of Engineering, Crystal DBA
Omnistrate made it easy for us to launch AutoDBA as a SaaS product. Their platform took care of the complexities of scaling and managing different environments, so we could focus on building features our users love. With Omnistrate, we've been able to deliver a consistent, high-quality experience across all PostgreSQL setups.
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Sachin Honnudike
Senior Engineer, Databricks
A solid service control plane is crucial to any technology stack and product. Omnistrate makes it super easy to define, build, and scale a control plane with minimal effort
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Haroon Choudery
CEO, Autoblocks AI
We chose Omnistrate because it empowered us to deliver on our promise to create a safety-first approach to building & managing AI Applications. The Omnistrate Control Plane as a Service streamlined our deployment process, eliminated infrastructure complexity, and allowed us to focus on innovation and customer experience. With Omnistrate's robust capabilities, we launched ahead of schedule, under budget and our customers are able to securely deploy our solution anywhere they need it.
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Subomi Oluwalana
CEO, Convoy
Our friends at another company told us it took them 2 years to build their control plane using Vanilla AWS APIs. Omnistrate enabled us to ship our Cloud platform in only weeks.
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Anonymous
SVP, Public Database Company
Partnering with Omnistrate was a pivotal decision for our SaaS project. Their offering not only expedited our development process but also ensured a timely launch, allowing us to capitalize on a crucial market opportunity.
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Anurag Gupta
EX- VP of Database and Analytic Services, AWS
Control planes consume precious headcount for undifferentiated work. Omnistrate is reinventing control planes, making it easy and inexpensive to stand up a managed service on any cloud.
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Nikhil Gudi
CTO, PeriNimble
At PeriNimble, we are redefining the next generation of Energy and Utilities SaaS software and leveraging Omnistrate has helped us save tons of time and money. Best decision we have made so far
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Daniel Wasserlauf
CTO, Paigo
Using Omnistrate to manage, deploy and configure SaaS applications in a multi-cloud model is nothing short of remarkable. The work that would take me months now can happen in minutes. I feel as though Omnistrate is a superpower I wish knew about earlier
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Sailesh Krishnamurthy
Ex- GM of AWS Aurora, AWS
Building a controlplane for stateful systems is hard and can take years to get it right
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Dave Lang
Ex- Product Head of RDS, AWS
Building a control plane that is reliable at scale is incredibly difficult. It's expert-level work that can consume a team's resources and often requires specialists. Omnistrate is simplifying the process, making it faster, and allowing teams to easily use it across multiple clouds.
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Anonymous
CEO, Application SaaS Customer
After Omnistrate, we saw a 200% increase in active users, experienced the ease of automated infrastructure, plus self-service account and subscription management
A
Anonymous
CEO, Caching SaaS Cloud Customer
Thanks to Omnistrate, I transformed my SaaS from an idea to a fully operational end-to-end solution in just 60 minutes! The platform’s incredible efficiency and user-friendliness are absolutely revolutionary!
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Guy Korland
CEO, FalkorDB
Omnistrate dramatically accelerated our GTM, cutting launch time from months to weeks. Their secure platform and exceptional support enabled us to deploy features rapidly and efficiently.
A
Adam
Co-Founder and CTO, Autoblocks
Having gone from limited k8s experience with no idea how we would support a BYOA offering, to now having a cell based architecture that we can deploy anywhere and be confident in our offerings, security posture, and deployment strategy in such a short amount of time really is incredible.
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Peter Farkas
CEO, Ferret DB
By choosing Omnistrate, you're not just getting a control plane—you're getting a decade of expertise, an enterprise-grade cloud foundation, and a proven path to success. Instead of spending valuable time hiring and training a control plane team, you can launch faster, reduce costs, and focus on growing your business from day one.
M
Mitch Patin
CEO, Inquery
We were able to build our Inquery SaaS within few minutes as opposed to months
V
Vinay Mamidi
CEO, Whiteswan Security
Security startups don't have time or resources to reinvent cloud infrastructure. Omnistrate allowed us to run a scalable SaaS in weeks—not years—without experienced DevOps personnel on staff, so we could focus on what matters: securing our customers.
D
Di Qi
CEO, Lantern
Omnistrate has been instrumental in our journey to monetizing our software. It simplified the complex process of SaaS development, saving us months of infrastructure engineering effort.
N
Neil Thombre
VP of Engineering, Crystal DBA
Omnistrate made it easy for us to launch AutoDBA as a SaaS product. Their platform took care of the complexities of scaling and managing different environments, so we could focus on building features our users love. With Omnistrate, we've been able to deliver a consistent, high-quality experience across all PostgreSQL setups.
S
Sachin Honnudike
Senior Engineer, Databricks
A solid service control plane is crucial to any technology stack and product. Omnistrate makes it super easy to define, build, and scale a control plane with minimal effort
H
Haroon Choudery
CEO, Autoblocks AI
We chose Omnistrate because it empowered us to deliver on our promise to create a safety-first approach to building & managing AI Applications. The Omnistrate Control Plane as a Service streamlined our deployment process, eliminated infrastructure complexity, and allowed us to focus on innovation and customer experience. With Omnistrate's robust capabilities, we launched ahead of schedule, under budget and our customers are able to securely deploy our solution anywhere they need it.
S
Subomi Oluwalana
CEO, Convoy
Our friends at another company told us it took them 2 years to build their control plane using Vanilla AWS APIs. Omnistrate enabled us to ship our Cloud platform in only weeks.
A
Anonymous
SVP, Public Database Company
Partnering with Omnistrate was a pivotal decision for our SaaS project. Their offering not only expedited our development process but also ensured a timely launch, allowing us to capitalize on a crucial market opportunity.
A
Anurag Gupta
EX- VP of Database and Analytic Services, AWS
Control planes consume precious headcount for undifferentiated work. Omnistrate is reinventing control planes, making it easy and inexpensive to stand up a managed service on any cloud.
N
Nikhil Gudi
CTO, PeriNimble
At PeriNimble, we are redefining the next generation of Energy and Utilities SaaS software and leveraging Omnistrate has helped us save tons of time and money. Best decision we have made so far
D
Daniel Wasserlauf
CTO, Paigo
Using Omnistrate to manage, deploy and configure SaaS applications in a multi-cloud model is nothing short of remarkable. The work that would take me months now can happen in minutes. I feel as though Omnistrate is a superpower I wish knew about earlier
S
Sailesh Krishnamurthy
Ex- GM of AWS Aurora, AWS
Building a controlplane for stateful systems is hard and can take years to get it right
D
Dave Lang
Ex- Product Head of RDS, AWS
Building a control plane that is reliable at scale is incredibly difficult. It's expert-level work that can consume a team's resources and often requires specialists. Omnistrate is simplifying the process, making it faster, and allowing teams to easily use it across multiple clouds.
A
Anonymous
CEO, Application SaaS Customer
After Omnistrate, we saw a 200% increase in active users, experienced the ease of automated infrastructure, plus self-service account and subscription management
A
Anonymous
CEO, Caching SaaS Cloud Customer
Thanks to Omnistrate, I transformed my SaaS from an idea to a fully operational end-to-end solution in just 60 minutes! The platform’s incredible efficiency and user-friendliness are absolutely revolutionary!
G
Guy Korland
CEO, FalkorDB
Omnistrate dramatically accelerated our GTM, cutting launch time from months to weeks. Their secure platform and exceptional support enabled us to deploy features rapidly and efficiently.
A
Adam
Co-Founder and CTO, Autoblocks
Having gone from limited k8s experience with no idea how we would support a BYOA offering, to now having a cell based architecture that we can deploy anywhere and be confident in our offerings, security posture, and deployment strategy in such a short amount of time really is incredible.
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