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37signals: Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five years
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. F...
That includes a lot of super critical customer files, like for Basecamp and HEY, stored in duplicate via separate regions. And even for our savings estimates, the target keeps moving as we require more hardware and more storage as Basecamp and HEY continues to grow over the years. The potential savings from these answers can be shocking.At 37signals, we're looking forward to literally deleting our AWS account come this summer, but remain grateful for the service and the lessons we learned while using the platform.
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