Hyperscalers are pushing 5–10% price increases onto steady-state workloads in 2026. You built the business — we engineer your exit from AWS without the catastrophic bill.
Slide to your current AWS/Azure monthly bill. The engagement isn't an expense — it's a fixed-cost extraction that pays for itself in weeks, not years.
"Exit paralysis" is by design — hyperscalers make leaving sound catastrophic. It isn't. Your app keeps running in the cloud until the moment the switchover is proven safe.
We inventory every managed service, IAM entanglement, and data flow before touching a line of code. You get the full dependency graph — the map of exactly what AWS has its hooks into.
Your target stack goes up on owned hardware: MinIO replaces S3, PostgreSQL with streaming replication replaces RDS, RabbitMQ replaces SQS, Authentik replaces Cognito. Everything is provisioned as code — you keep the playbooks.
Data streams continuously to the new stack while production runs untouched in the cloud — compressed, encrypted, and staged to sidestep the worst of the egress-fee structure. The mirrors run until lag is zero and checksums match.
DNS TTLs drop, traffic shifts behind a reverse proxy with instant rollback, and the cloud stack idles as a warm standby until you're satisfied. Then we tear it down and the bills stop.
The fear: "my app depends on managed services I can't replace." The reality: battle-tested open source runs the same workloads on your hardware — without the markup.
| Cloud Managed Service | Bare-Metal Equivalent |
|---|---|
| AWS S3 / Azure Blob | MinIO / Ceph |
| AWS RDS / Azure SQL | PostgreSQL + streaming replication & automated failover |
| AWS SQS / SNS | RabbitMQ / Redis |
| AWS Cognito / Azure AD | Authentik / Keycloak |
| AWS Lambda | Systemd units / container jobs — no cold starts, no per-invocation billing |
| CloudWatch | Prometheus + Grafana + Loki |
No "what is the cloud" filler. Architecture teardowns, real math, and exit mechanics.
The exact technical pipeline — rclone, compression, staged transfer — to move terabytes out of AWS without a five-figure egress surprise.
Hardware costs rose and hyperscalers are quietly passing 5–10% increases to steady-state workloads. The numbers, line by line.
The full archive — repatriation playbooks, stack architecture, and sovereignty economics.
30 minutes. We look at your bill and your architecture, and tell you straight whether an exit makes sense — and what it would actually cost.
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