How Digital Society Reduced Cloud Costs by 76% While Tripling Capacity with Hetzner Migration
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Summary
Digital Society, a not-for-profit cooperative, successfully migrated their cloud infrastructure from AWS and DigitalOcean to Hetzner, achieving a 76% reduction in cloud costs while tripling their capacity. The article details their journey from initially using AWS credits for their data-intensive SaaS platform 'tap' to strategically moving to Hetzner for better cost efficiency. They explain their use of AWS Fargate for serverless containers and the financial benefits of the migration, emphasizing their commitment to minimizing operational costs as a cooperative organization.
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Building tap with AWS credits let us experiment with our infrastructure needs without worrying about the cost.
In the spirit of minimising our operational costs we opted to use AWS' serverless container runtime, Fargate.
Digital Society is a not-for-profit cooperative helping you get your projects off the ground and realise the value of your data.
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