We cut AWS, Azure and Google Cloud bills by moving what should move, to another cloud or onto bare metal, and by giving you a tested way out before your next renewal. We do it with AI skills that run on your own data, and by coaching your team through the move instead of sending you contractors.
Two EU regulations have turned an exit plan from a nice-to-have into leverage, and for financial entities into an obligation.
From this date, cloud providers can no longer charge you to switch to another provider or to your own servers, and that includes egress fees. Your contract already has to let you switch on two months' notice, whatever its term, but a fixed-term commitment can still carry a proportionate early termination penalty.
Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (Data Act), Arts. 25 and 29
Financial entities need an exit strategy for every ICT service behind a critical or important function, and a documented, tested exit plan for each of those contracts.
Regulation (EU) 2022/2554; RTS (EU) 2024/1773, Art. 10
AWS, Microsoft and Google Cloud are on the EU's list of designated critical ICT third-party providers, under direct oversight. Supervisors will ask how you would leave them.
ESAs, list of designated CTPPs
Every step leaves you with something you own and can act on, including the skills that produced it, whether or not you hire us for the next one.
A free AI skill reads your cloud bill in your own assistant and returns an indicative bare-metal plan: named servers, monthly euros and the saving after operations effort.
Get the skillTwo weeks. Your team runs our Teardown skills in your own assistant, against read-only exports you control, and we review every finding. You get a costed savings ledger, an exit route for every major workload, and the skills to run it again.
What a Teardown coversA DORA and Data Act exit plan generated from your live inventory and run again every quarter, so it never goes stale. We sign the review and run one exit test with your team. It is also the strongest document you can bring to a renewal.
Your team runs the migration with our skill packs: cloud to cloud, onto bare metal, or a hybrid. Infrastructure as code, staged cut-overs and a rollback at every step. Each step is rehearsed first and goes live only when your team passes its gate. We coach, and step in only where the people test says we must.
Optional. We keep your skills and our price catalogue current, plan capacity with your team, and stay on call as an escalation backstop. Your team runs the platform.
Every recommendation comes from a skill run on your own data, and you keep the skill.
Your team does the work, rehearses each step and goes live when it passes the gate, while we coach.
We send a person only when one of four published conditions applies, and only until it no longer does.
Some of it is worth paying for. A Teardown separates what you would pay anywhere from the premium you pay for not having an alternative. Much of that premium pays for operations your team can learn to run. That is the part we teach.
Pricing your exit is free, and the skill is yours to keep. The Teardown is a fixed fee, quoted before we start. An Exit Plan is a fixed fee, then a quarterly subscription that regenerates the plan from your current inventory.
A Move is priced as a share of the savings it delivers in its first twelve months, measured on your own bills. If the bill does not drop, we do not earn.
Steady State is a monthly subscription that keeps your skills and our price catalogue current.
We don't sell days. When the people test says you need one of ours, the role is fixed-term and quoted before it starts.
We take no reseller margin and no referral fee from any provider. When staying put is cheaper, we will tell you.
Counterweight is led by a DevSecOps and cloud security architect who has built and secured platforms for government, aviation, utilities, banking and financial services. The engineers who build our skills are the ones who review your results and coach your team through the move.
We are based in Ireland and work across the EU and UK. Our skills run in your own assistant, so your billing data, state files and architecture stay in your estate; we see only what you share for review.
Start with the bill you already have: an indicative estimate in minutes, free. Then a two-week Teardown, run by your team with our skills and reviewed by us, turns it into a costed plan you can take to procurement.