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

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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?

The last migration we did included a full kubernetes migration. We used k3s and it works beautifully on baremetals with an insane amount of resources now. Earlier devs were used to provisioning 0.5 cpus for a node, now they have so much resources to play around.

Very very important points about the sdks getting locked in into the prioprietary cloud s/w. This will need to be fixed by your dev team. However what we have noted is that the time and effort to fix these issues are much less when your dev team can ask a claude agent to look through code and make a particular feature of postgres x to be compatible for postgres y. This is a big committment of course.

We would assume that you will develop capabilities slowly to operate your infra, just like you have done for cloud. you can potentially use the same team that manages your cloud infra to do this also. contracting is probably the easiest to fix :)

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.

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.

Hi! Yes this is quite obvious on the outside isnt it? All it needs is execution we have helped multiple companies with cloud exits to significantly better performance. The hardware isnt difficult at all, one of our favourite bare-metal providers to use is Hetzner who has great deals on hardware.

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%.

> CloudExit Pro is a service of Avallark Services LLP

Nothing suspicious here…

why does it have to be suspicious. Its a services offering that we have.

> why does it have to be suspicious. Its a services offering that we have.

It's difficult to read good intent in the original comment when the text of the comment says "these guys" as if the account (your account) is endorsing the service rather than representing itself as the provider of the service.

Honestly, it might just be worth deleting and trying again, this time with an honest blurb from your account about the mission rather than pretending to endorse your own product.

Up performance by 5x?

if you compare bare bones infra for the same amount of money its insanely high. We didnt want to sound arrogant by saying you iops goes anywhere 10x to 20x, you get 10x the kind of dedicated cpu for the same price etc. so we chose a very humble number 5x. https://cloudexit.pro/why-exit.html has some actual real world numbers.

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