Two-Year Review: AWS to Bare Metal Migration Saves $230,000 Annually
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ndhandala
Fresh out the oven, still warm. Top of the tray.
Summary
Two years after migrating from AWS to bare metal servers, the company revisits their cost savings of $230,000 per year and addresses key questions from the tech community. They discuss their experience over 24 months, covering topics like Reserved Instances, failover strategies for single racks, personnel costs, and when cloud solutions remain preferable. The article provides internal numbers and responds to feedback from Hacker News and Reddit discussions about their original migration story.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledWhen we published How moving from AWS to Bare-Metal saved us $230,000 /yr. in 2023, the story travelled far beyond our usual readership.
The discussion threads on Hacker News and Reddit were packed with sharp questions: did we skip Reserved Instances, how do we fail over a single rack, what about the people cost, and when is cloud still the better answer?
This follow-up is our long-form reply.
Over the last twenty-four months we:
$230,000 / yr savings
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