Cloud exit · AWS and Azure to EU providers or your own servers
Hyperscalers make sense for spiky, global workloads. Many company workloads are neither: the same VMs and databases running around the clock, billed by the hour, with fees on data that leaves. We move them to an EU hosting provider or your own servers on a fixed price and date, cut over outside business hours.
Why now
Sources: AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud announcements on free data transfer for customers leaving (2024); Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (Data Act), Art. 29.
How we move it
Which workloads are steady, which are spiky, and what they cost today — including data transfer, snapshots and support plans.
Dedicated servers or VMs at an EU provider, or your own racks — Proxmox or Kubernetes, depending on what you run.
Managed databases → PostgreSQL or MySQL with replication; object storage → S3-compatible storage; load balancers → HAProxy or nginx.
Bulk copy ahead of time and a final delta sync at cutover; the data-transfer waiver is requested from your current provider.
DNS switched in an off-hours window; the old environment stays until you confirm.
Monitoring, backups and patching from day one — by your team, by us or by StayPatched.
Straight talk
How a migration runs
Inventory, written plan, fixed quote and date — before any work starts.
Non-critical systems move first; performance and restores proven on your workloads.
A runbook per wave, agreed windows, a written way back for every step.
Wave by wave, outside your business hours. Anything wrong rolls back.
Documentation, runbooks, full admin access — or StayPatched keeps it patched.
Questions
Usually not: AWS, Azure and Google Cloud waive data-transfer fees for customers who leave, on request — and from 12 January 2027 the EU Data Act bans switching charges altogether.
The one that fits your workload and compliance needs. We are not tied to any provider.
You get PostgreSQL or MySQL with replication, backups and point-in-time recovery — run by your team, by us or by StayPatched.
Yes. Moving the steady workloads and keeping the spiky ones in the cloud is often the best of both.
It depends on the number of services and how deeply they use provider-specific features. The completion date is fixed in the quote after the assessment.
Get a migration plan
A short call, then a written assessment: what moves as-is, what needs care, what should stay — with a fixed price and a fixed date. No obligation.