We left the cloud

After using clouds from both Amazon and Google extensively over the past 15 years, we finally had enough of the outrageous bills and the ever-increasing complexity. So in 2023, we pulled Basecamp, HEY, and five other heritage apps out of AWS and onto our own hardware — without adding any new staff.

The bottomline:

Leaving the cloud will save us
~$10 million over five years.

That's a reduction in our infrastructure costs of between half and two-thirds.

Our cloud exit in full detail

• Why we’re leaving the cloud
• Five values guiding our cloud exit
• The hardware we need for our cloud exit has arrived
• Cloud exit pays off in performance too
• We have left the cloud
• The Big Cloud FAQ
• We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit
• Our cloud exit has already yielded $1m/year in savings
• It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit
• Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five years
• Introducing Kamal
• Kamal 1.0
• Kamal 2: Thou need not PaaS
• Our switch to Kamal is complete
• Keeping the lights on while leaving the cloud
• De-cloud and de-k8s — bringing our apps back home
• Servers can last a long time
• Don’t be fooled by serverless
• The only thing worse than cloud pricing is the enterprisey alternatives
• Sovereign clouds