AWS, Google and Azure — the "hyperscalers," the three giant cloud providers — charge you the most for the thing you want most — traffic and scale. Egress (the charge to send your own data out to your users) and per-request fees are the hidden meter that turns a growing business into a bigger invoice. I help you move the parts that bleed onto infrastructure you control — with a bill that doesn't grow when you do — and I tell you, honestly, which parts to leave alone.
No signup. No sales call. A real engineer reads your bill — me, not a chatbot or a sales team.
The figures above are AWS, but this isn't an AWS problem: Azure (~$0.087/GB) and Google Cloud (~$0.12/GB) price egress in the same band — they move together because it's a moat, not a cost. Sources are cited in your assessment. The pattern is always the same: the savings grow as you grow, because a server you rent flat doesn't charge you per gigabyte.
The full Cloud-Exit Assessment is a fixed $3,500, 5–7 working days: a line-by-line bill teardown, a target design with real monthly numbers, a 5-year total cost that includes running it, and an honest "do NOT move this." See what's included →
But you don't pay to find out if it's worth it — start with the free teardown below.
Most "leave the cloud" pitches sell you a migration no matter what. I don't. If your bill is spiky, mostly idle, or dominated by managed services rather than traffic, moving it can cost more once you count the engineering time. The Assessment exists to find that out before you spend a cent on a migration.
Honest math beats a bigger invoice. "Zero ongoing cost" is a myth — someone always runs the servers. I price that in, then show you whether the savings still win. Often they do. Sometimes they don't, and I'll say so.
Two fair fears, answered straight — because the honest answer is what makes the savings believable.
The fastest way to know if this is worth your time. Forward a recent cloud invoice (or a cost-explorer export) and I send back a one-page estimate of your flat-rate cost and your likely annual savings — with the egress line broken out. No obligation, no sales call.
Prefer email? Send your bill straight to ami@smallestbusiness.com. I reply within one business day. Your bill is read by me and never shared.
The person who reads your bill is the same person who designs the migration and runs the servers. No account managers, no handoffs, no junior doing the work a brochure promised a senior would. I'm not a reseller and not an affiliate — I make money when your infrastructure gets cheaper and stays boring, not when you buy more of something.
One engineer raises a fair question — what happens if I'm unavailable? I answer it head-on: everything I build is standard open-source you (or anyone) can run, fully documented, and yours — no lock-in to me. Here's how I handle that, why one person is an advantage, and where I'm honest about the big dependencies (including Cloudflare) →
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