--- title: 'What Happened to ParkMyCloud? Is It Still Available?' description: "ParkMyCloud was acquired by Turbonomic, then absorbed into IBM's Turbonomic portfolio. Here is the timeline, what changed, and an AWS-only alternative." date: '2026-06-01' readingTime: '5 min read' --- If you used ParkMyCloud to switch idle cloud resources off outside working hours, you may have noticed that the standalone product has largely disappeared from view. It did not shut down. Turbonomic acquired ParkMyCloud in 2019, and IBM acquired Turbonomic in 2021. ParkMyCloud's scheduling approach was folded into the broader Turbonomic Application Resource Management (ARM) portfolio rather than kept as a standalone IBM product. So the practical answer is that ParkMyCloud is effectively discontinued as a standalone brand. The idea behind it still holds: non-production cloud infrastructure should not run around the clock when nobody is using it. ## ParkMyCloud timeline | Date | What happened | | -------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 2015 | ParkMyCloud was founded around a simple idea: automatically "park" cloud resources when they were not needed. | | April 2018 | ParkMyCloud announced SmartParking for Google Cloud Platform, adding to its support for AWS and Microsoft Azure. | | May 2019 | Turbonomic acquired ParkMyCloud. Contemporary reporting described the deal as bringing ParkMyCloud's automated cloud cost controls into Turbonomic's wider platform. | | April 29, 2021 | IBM signed a definitive agreement to acquire Turbonomic. | | June 17, 2021 | IBM closed the Turbonomic acquisition. | | December 2022 | In IBM's public ideas portal, a Turbonomic team response referred to a pending migration of ParkMyCloud into IBM Turbonomic and described the existing product as "legacy ParkMyCloud." | ## Is ParkMyCloud still available? No, not as the standalone ParkMyCloud product most users remember. Turbonomic acquired ParkMyCloud in May 2019, and IBM acquired Turbonomic in June 2021. The capabilities moved into the broader IBM Turbonomic ARM product. Today IBM markets Turbonomic, not a separate ParkMyCloud product. ParkMyCloud is therefore defunct as a standalone brand, though it did not vanish overnight. Its technology was absorbed into a larger platform. If you are searching for "ParkMyCloud shut down" or "ParkMyCloud discontinued," that is the useful distinction. The standalone service is no longer the obvious product to buy, while IBM Turbonomic continues as an enterprise application resource management platform. ## Why ParkMyCloud mattered ParkMyCloud popularized a practical way to cut avoidable cloud spend: schedule idle resources to stop when teams are not using them. The language stuck because the action was simple. A development environment needed during office hours could be "parked" overnight and at weekends, then started again before the team returned. Rather than rely on engineers to remember manual shutdowns, teams made the schedule automatic. The product also expanded beyond AWS. By 2018, its SmartParking functionality covered the three major cloud providers: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. It later added broader cloud cost controls, but automated parking stayed the idea most closely associated with the brand. Idle non-production resources remain a straightforward problem. Development, staging, QA, and demo environments usually need reliable working hours, not 24/7 runtime. Scheduling is one early step in a FinOps strategy, and a sensible one for resources that are predictably unused. ## What replaced ParkMyCloud? There is no direct standalone IBM product called ParkMyCloud. IBM's current product is [IBM Turbonomic](https://www.ibm.com/products/turbonomic), a broader ARM platform built for hybrid and multicloud environments. Turbonomic addresses a wider set of application resource management problems than a scheduler does. IBM describes capabilities such as full-stack visibility, policy-driven automation, workload rightsizing, capacity modeling, and cloud performance optimization. That may suit enterprises that want a larger platform. It is a different buying decision from wanting a focused tool that switches non-production resources off at night and starts them again before work. ## What to use instead on AWS If your goal is simple AWS parking rather than a broad enterprise optimization platform, [ParkMyAWS](https://parkmyaws.com/parkmycloud-alternative) is a modern successor to the scheduling idea. ParkMyAWS gives your non-production AWS resources office hours. You connect an AWS account through a cross-account IAM role, pick the EC2 instances and RDS databases you want to manage, and assign schedules for nights and weekends. Only the resources you explicitly select are scheduled. The focus is deliberately narrow: - AWS EC2 instance scheduling - AWS RDS database scheduling, including Aurora clusters - Multiple AWS accounts from one dashboard - Savings tracking for parked resources - No infrastructure stack for your team to host and maintain ParkMyAWS is **AWS-only**. ParkMyCloud was a multicloud product with support for AWS, Azure, and GCP. If you need Azure or GCP scheduling, ParkMyAWS is not the right replacement today. If you are weighing ParkMyAWS against AWS's own scheduling tooling, see our [detailed AWS Instance Scheduler comparison](https://parkmyaws.com/aws-instance-scheduler-alternative). For AWS teams that want managed parking without adopting a larger FinOps or ARM platform, the fit is simpler. You get office hours for your non-production AWS. ## Sources - Jay Chapel, ["ParkMyCloud Announces SmartParking for Google Cloud Platform"](https://jaychapel.medium.com/parkmycloud-announces-smartparking-for-google-cloud-platform-1bd8fdd317fe), April 3, 2018. - ChannelE2E, ["Cloud Cost Management Tools: Turbonomic Buys ParkMyCloud"](https://www.channele2e.com/news/turbonomic-buys-parkmycloud), May 13, 2019. - IBM Newsroom, ["IBM to Acquire Turbonomic Building Industry's Most Comprehensive AIOps Capabilities for Hybrid Cloud"](https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-04-29-IBM-to-Acquire-Turbonomic-Building-Industrys-Most-Comprehensive-AIOps-Capabilities-for-Hybrid-Cloud), April 29, 2021. - IBM Newsroom, ["IBM Closes Acquisition of Turbonomic to Deliver Comprehensive AIOps Capabilities for Hybrid Cloud"](https://newsroom.ibm.com/2021-06-17-IBM-Closes-Acquisition-of-Turbonomic-to-Deliver-Comprehensive-AIOps-Capabilities-for-Hybrid-Cloud), June 17, 2021. - IBM Automation Ideas Portal, ["ParkMyCloud API Enhancement to append users to teams"](https://automation-management.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TURBO-I-247), response posted December 14, 2022. - IBM, ["IBM Turbonomic"](https://www.ibm.com/products/turbonomic), accessed June 1, 2026.