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.
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.