Why we left the Cloud

As of late, a number of key people in the IT industry have voiced their concerns about Cloud costs. Cloud costs have been steadily rising, with the basic experience being offered by the likes of Amazon and Google not changing much, if at all.

We’ve decided to test out a migration of a part of our applications to a bare metal machine (physical DELL rack units of our own), set up completely by ourselves, from scratch. From kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, disk redundancy, to docker registry, Github Actions, etc.

We’ve now been running this set up for about 60 of our applications and have seen a 80% decrease in costs, with the bare metal and data center costs being redeemed within just 2 months of leaving the Cloud (Amazon specifically).

We’d love to share our journey of our bare metal migration!