Migration from AWS, Azure and GCP to Hetzner and OVH. First I work out whether it pays off. If it does not, I advise against the move.
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The same architecture, per month
prices checked
Small containerised application
Large web application
Large Kubernetes cluster
A web application with a MySQL database, cache, search and a queue, for 100–150 people at once. On AWS: three application servers, a Multi-AZ database and managed services. At Hetzner and OVH: four dedicated servers, a database replica and backups outside the provider.
prices as of 23 September 2026
Total2,718.12 USD
in EUR, NBP rates 0.8728EUR 2,372
Net, excluding VAT. NBP rate from table 184/A/NBP/2026.
prices as of 23 September 2026
Total447.86 EUR
Maintenance by meEUR 690Growth plan
Total with maintenanceEUR 1,138
Monthly savingEUR 1,234per month (PLN 5,374)
Servers and services are 19% of the AWS bill.
Net, excluding VAT.
prices as of 23 September 2026
Total1,944.62 PLN
in EUR, NBP rates 0.2301EUR 447
Maintenance by meEUR 690Growth plan
Total with maintenanceEUR 1,137
Monthly savingEUR 1,235per month (PLN 5,376)
Servers and services are 19% of the AWS bill.
Net, excluding VAT. NBP rate from table 184/A/NBP/2026. Outside Poland OVH invoices in EUR, and prices may differ slightly.
Net prices as of 23 September 2026, AWS in Frankfurt at on-demand prices. With Reserved Instances or Savings Plans the same AWS setup would cost about EUR 1,850. An asterisk marks a line where part of the amount is my estimate (CDN, monitoring, backups). I include maintenance: with four servers that is the Growth plan (EUR 690 per month). The exact figures for your architecture are in the exit plan. Work it out for your own bill.
Within 2 business days I will reply with 3 concrete observations.
I do not need access to the account. A PDF invoice from the console or a Cost Explorer export for the last 3 months is enough.
Only I read the file, and I do not paste it into AI tools. I delete it when you ask, and after 12 months at the latest.
Some of the convenience of managed services goes away. I make up for it with automation in Terraform and Ansible, monitoring and alerts. Here is exactly what you give up.
A typical schedule from an exit plan. The bar length is time, and each stage has its price. Larger systems take longer to build; your exact weeks are in your plan.
Week 1.
Your bill and architecture, a first estimate of the savings.
free
Week 2.
Target architecture, total cost, risks.
from EUR 900
Usually weeks 3–6.
A new environment next to the old one, in Terraform and Ansible, with performance tests.
from EUR 1,850
One night after the build.
Data replication, a DNS change and a rollback plan ready. I plan the switch-over with no downtime.
included in the migration
Monthly after that.
Updates, backups, alerts.
from EUR 190 per month
Exit plan from EUR 900. The plan price is deducted from the migration price if you order the migration within 90 days of receiving the plan. The migration price in the plan is valid for those 90 days for the scope it describes. Migration from EUR 1,850, at the price set in the plan. Terms of the credit.
I do not plan any. I build the new environment next to the old one and replicate the database to it. On the night of the switch the old environment forwards traffic to the new one, so writes go to one database, and then I change DNS, with the TTL lowered in advance. The rollback plan is ready before the switch.
Link to this question: Will there be downtime?The plan takes about two weeks. Building the new environment usually takes three to six weeks, depending on the number of services. The exact schedule is in the exit plan.
Link to this question: How long does a cloud exit take?RDS: PostgreSQL with Patroni or MariaDB with a replica, on the same servers as the application. OVH’s managed database is an option too, but it costs about as much as RDS. S3: Hetzner or OVH Object Storage, or self-hosted Garage on dedicated servers. Lambda depends on what it does: often a queue and an ordinary process in a container are enough. The table of replacements is above.
Link to this question: What replaces RDS, S3 or Lambda?Usually very little. Hetzner and OVH dedicated servers include traffic, and Hetzner Cloud includes 20 TB a month per server in the EU. With heavy outbound traffic this is often the biggest saving.
Link to this question: What does traffic cost after the migration?Usually not for the data transfer itself. Under AWS’s rules as updated on 30 September 2025, on a request through AWS Support AWS waives outbound traffic charges tied to the move, and there are 90 days to finish it. This applies to moving all your data out of AWS. If some services stay on AWS, transfer between the providers is charged at the normal rates. For customers in the European Union, from 12 January 2027 the EU Data Act bans switching charges when the switch follows the procedure in that regulation. What remains are term commitments: Savings Plans, Reserved Instances and any minimum spend in your agreement with AWS. I check them at the start and put them in the plan.
Link to this question: Will AWS charge me for leaving?In Hetzner data centres in Germany or Finland, or at OVH in France, Germany or Poland. We choose the location in the plan, with GDPR and your contracts with your own customers in mind.
Link to this question: Where will my data be?After the switch the AWS database receives the changes from the new one (replication in the reverse direction), so it stays current for the transition period. Rolling back is the same procedure in the other direction, described step by step in the plan.
Link to this question: What if something goes wrong?I design it so that losing one server does not stop the service: database replicas, backups outside the provider and, for higher requirements, a second location. We agree the level of protection in the plan, together with its cost.
Link to this question: What if Hetzner or OVH has an outage?I can, on a maintenance plan from EUR 190 per month. All the configuration is in your repository, so your own team can just as well take it over.
Link to this question: Who runs the infrastructure after the migration?Send me a Cost Explorer screenshot. I do not need access to the account.
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