Indicative bare-metal estimate for Sample Co

Prepared 24 October 2026 with Price your exit 1.3.0 from an AWS Cost and Usage Report covering 1 to 30 September 2026. Prices exclude VAT. Scaleway prices as of 24 October 2026.

The short answer

Moving the workloads that suit bare metal to Scaleway would cost about €16.2k–€17.1k a month, against €30.9k today: 45% to 48% less, or €166k to €177k a year. Both figures include an allowance for the extra operations work (0.64–0.68 of an engineer, €5.9k–€6.2k/mo) and keep the services that are better left where they are. Without the operations allowance the saving is 65% to 67%; with a full extra engineer (€110,000 a year) it would be €10.9k to €11.4k a month.

Like-for-like (€17.1k/mo) buys one modern server thread for every cloud vCPU, the same memory and the disk you provision today. Right-sized (€16.2k/mo) assumes typical utilisation, newer CPUs and the disk you actually use, which a Teardown measures rather than assumes. Your bill for the period was €30,458 before tax and credits; figures here are per average month. Confidence: medium-high (81% of spend sized, 90% of that from usage data rather than cost alone).

What we read

Your estate in numbers

• Application capacity: about 200 vCPU-equivalents and 683 GB of memory provisioned on average, across 1 managed Kubernetes cluster(s).
• Data services (MySQL, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, Redis): 66 vCPU-equivalents and 368 GB of memory including replicas, with 12.8 TB of fast local storage.
• Disks and shared file storage: 19.5 TB.
• Object storage: 146.5 TB.
• Internet egress: 59.4 TB a month (about 190 Mbit/s on average).
• GPUs: 2.0 × A10G on average.

Proposed bare-metal shape on Scaleway

Right-sized (consolidated, 12 servers). The application pool keeps a spare server and every database runs a replica on a second server, so one failed machine does not take a service down. GPU servers have no spare. Everything sits in one provider region, spread across its data-centre buildings where the provider allows, with backups in a second location. A warm standby site for disaster recovery is not priced.

We could not confirm an ISO 27001 certificate or SOC 2 report covering Scaleway's bare-metal servers, checked 24 October 2026. Scaleway holds ISO 27001:2022 (BSI, IS 787020, expiring 5 December 2026) for "Scaleway's Public Cloud products" at its Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw sites, but the published certificate does not say Elastic Metal is included; ask for the current Statement of Applicability. No SOC 2 report. HDS covers Elastic Metal in France. If your auditors, customers or regulator expect your hosting provider to hold ISO 27001 or a SOC 2 Type II report, say so: the estimate then recommends only providers that do.

Like-for-like (consolidated, 14 servers):

Month by month

Other providers

• Hetzner (prices checked 19 October 2026): Fixed configurations since June 2026; some GPU and object-storage prices are read from Hetzner's price API or third-party trackers and are marked unverified.
• OVHcloud (prices checked 19 October 2026): Priced at base configurations (32-128 GB RAM, 2 NVMe drives). Scale servers take up to 3 TB RAM and 6 x 15.36 TB NVMe, but OVHcloud publishes upgrade prices only in its configurator, so memory- or storage-heavy estates need more servers here than a configured quote would. Treat these OVHcloud figures as an upper bound.
• Scaleway (prices checked 24 October 2026): Scaleway does not publish stock levels, the 128 GB B-series models are Paris-only, and Iridium (EM-I) monthly orders carry a one-month commitment fee, counted here as setup.

One-off costs and timing

• Server setup fees: €1,500.
• Running both estates side by side for 2 months while you move: about €12,452.
• Those two costs are recovered in about 0.9 months of right-sized savings.
• Moving your 172 TB of data out would cost about €13,365 at list egress prices. AWS, Microsoft and Google have offered free data transfer out to customers who are leaving since 2024, on request and with conditions (AWS, for example, approves each request and expects the move to finish within 60 days). From 12 January 2027 the EU Data Act bans switching charges, though providers may still charge egress at cost while you run both estates in parallel.
• Not included: engineering effort for the move (costed in an Exit Plan), any remaining Reserved Instance or Savings Plan terms, and shortfalls against committed-spend agreements (EDP, MACC, committed use). Check those before setting a date.

What stays where it is

These services are kept at today's cost in the estimate. Some are cheap where they are (DNS, archive storage), some are proprietary and need re-engineering before they can move (data warehouses, proprietary NoSQL), and some you would replace with another SaaS product.

What this estimate assumes

• Servers are planned to run at no more than 70% CPU and 85% memory, with one spare server in the application pool and every database on a primary and a replica.
• Cloud vCPUs on Arm or without hyper-threading count as 1.4 hardware threads; burstable instances count at their baseline.
• Right-sized assumes 60% of today's CPU and 90% of memory is needed, adjusted for newer CPUs. A Teardown replaces this with your measured utilisation.
• Disks become software-replicated volumes (2 copies on separate servers) with 25% headroom for growth; right-sized assumes 70% of provisioned disk is in use. Databases run on local NVMe with a replica on a second server. Off-site backups hold 2× your primary data.
• Operations effort is the extra engineering time for running your own servers, Kubernetes, databases and storage, scaled to the size of the fleet (at least a quarter of an engineer) and priced at €110,000 a year per engineer, fully loaded. If your team already runs servers or Kubernetes, much of this effort exists today.
• 10% contingency on bare-metal costs. Setup fees are spread over 36 months when comparing server models.
• US dollar bills are converted at 1 USD = 0.8934 EUR (ECB reference rate, 23 October 2026).

What could move the number

• Windows workloads (~8 average vCPU) were licence-included in the cloud. Windows Server licences are not priced here; budget for them or plan a move to Linux.
• ~52 average vCPU run on Arm (Graviton/Ampere/Axion/Cobalt). The plan sizes them onto x86 thread equivalents; Arm bare metal is an option where offered.
• Your bill shows reserved, savings-plan, committed-use or negotiated discount pricing. Remaining commitment terms and any minimum-spend agreement (EDP, MACC, committed use) are not in this estimate; check them before timing a move.
• Credits of 1,000 USD were excluded from the baseline; they are temporary and would not continue indefinitely.
• Archive-tier storage (Glacier/Archive/Coldline) is kept where it is: it is already cheaper per TB than most bare-metal options.

Next step: book a Teardown

This estimate reads your bill. A Teardown reads your estate: two weeks, run by your team with our skills on read-only exports you control, measured utilisation instead of assumptions, and a costed plan with our signed review that you can take to procurement, whether or not you hire us to coach your team through it. If your renewal is coming up, price your exit before you sign.

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