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Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five years

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DAVID HEINEMEIER HANSSON October 17, 2024 ABOUT DAVID HEINEMEIER HANSSON Sent to the world with HEY

We finished pulling seven cloud apps, including HEY , out of AWS and onto our own hardware last summer. But it took until the end of that year for all the long-term contract commitments to end, so 2024 has been the first clean year of savings, and we've been pleasantly surprised that they've been even better than originally estimated. For 2024, we've brought the cloud bill down from the original $3.2 million/year run rate to $1.3 million. That's a saving of almost two million dollars per year for our setup! The reason it's more than our original estimate of $7 million over five years is that w

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