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 move the parts that bleed onto infrastructure you control, run them for you, and keep the bill lean month after month — because the meter never stops, and neither should the person watching it. 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.
To be clear, "leaving" doesn't mean leaving datacenters. You move to the same tier-3 datacenters the big providers use — rented at a flat monthly rate (OVH, Hetzner) or hardware you own. What you leave behind is the per-gigabyte meter and the lock-in, not the reliability.
Most "cut your cloud costs" help is a one-time report. But the meter never stops, and a bill you fix once drifts right back up: traffic grows, someone ships a feature that re-introduces egress, a reserved commitment lapses, a new managed service quietly turns on. So the honest product isn't a document — it's an ongoing job.
Managed Cloud-Exit is that job, done for you. I move the parts of your stack that bleed off the hyperscaler, run them, and keep optimizing the bill every month — and each month you get a plain report of exactly what I saved you against your starting bill.
You always keep the other 80% of what I save you, and the base is a fraction of the platform engineer you'd otherwise hire. I earn more only when your bill gets smaller — never when you use more. See the full plan, the math, and the on-ramp →
You don't start here, and 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 — and I won't put you on a managed plan that doesn't save you more than it costs.
Honest math beats a bigger invoice. "Zero ongoing cost" is a myth — someone always runs the servers. That's the job I'm pricing. The savings share is measured against your starting bill, dated and sourced in your monthly report, so you can always see you're ahead. Often you are. Sometimes you wouldn't be, 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, carries it out, and runs the servers afterwards — month after month. 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. The base keeps the lights on; the savings share means my upside only grows when yours does.
And I don't just advise — I build. Most people who cut cloud bills are cost analysts: they hand you a report, and you still need an engineer to do the move. I've spent more than 20 years building the software itself — databases, web backends, and the security-sensitive parts like logins and key management — so I can plan the migration and carry it out, including your database, the part most teams are afraid to touch.
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, and the managed plan is cancel-anytime. Here's how I handle that, why one person is an advantage, and where I'm honest about the big dependencies (including Cloudflare) →