AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS

The article discusses a company's transition from AWS to bare metal servers, highlighting cost savings and operational improvements. Over the past two years, they have achieved significant savings, improved latency, and enhanced reliability by running MicroK8s + Ceph stack in production. The company addressed common questions about the transition, such as the cost comparison with AWS, migration expenses, hardware lifecycle management, and compliance considerations. Despite moving away from AWS for their base workload, they still utilize cloud services for specific needs like Glacier backups and CloudFront edge caching. The company recommends staying with the cloud for workloads requiring elasticity or heavy reliance on managed services.