AWS/GCP too expensive? Cloudexit.pro will help you move to bare-metal

avallark

If your startup/SME has significant AWS/GCP cloud costs, these guys will help you move your infra to your dedicated servers which should up your performance by about 5x and reduce costs by around 50-70%.

jadar

I had an idea like this a year ago. Super interested how it goes if this is real. The problem right now is that it’s hard to get your hands on hardware in the first place.

gistscience

Cloud gets expensive when you use it like bare metal (always-on VMs, managed databases, data egress). But serverless can scale cheaper than bare metal for the right workloads. I run a content site processing 2,500 documents a day on $5/month Cloudflare Workers + R2, serving millions of page views. That said, doing cloud "right" requires rethinking architecture specifically for the cloud setup and requires to basically use vendor lock-in as a feature.

semyonsh

So I'm guessing this will work mainly for customers that are running actual compute or K8S already? The real challenge of a Cloud exit is undoing the years of gradually getting vendor locked-in. Not only do you use the services it provides, the software you might have written also uses the SDK's, is tightly coupled etc. I'm not even taking IAM into account, which is vertically integrated everywhere, in the equation. And this isn't only on a technical level but also organizational. So i'm out of the cloud, my staff still doesn't know anything about managing dedicated servers and other solutions. I'm now fully dependent on a firm which main focus is doing migrations? How would that work? What kind of business is your target audience here?