“The $2,000/Month Question: While not a fortune for every company, our $24,000 annual bill felt disproportionate to our actual needs.”
A Danish scheduling company moved off AWS to Hetzner and OVHcloud and cut its bill 90%. The bill was $24,000 a year, so the savings are about $21,600 before the time spent running Postgres and monitoring yourself. The bigger reason is the CLOUD Act, which reaches EU data on US clouds in any region. The post ends by selling migration sessions.