From AWS to private cloud: ₹80L to ₹5L a month

Context

A consumer platform with steady, high traffic ran everything on AWS. The monthly infrastructure bill had reached about ₹80 lakh, most of it for capacity that was busy around the clock.

Problem

• Cost: public-cloud pricing for always-on workloads.
• Waste: redundant and oversized services nobody had revisited.
• Control: no clear view of what each part of the bill paid for.

Outcome

• ~94% lower cost: from about ₹80L to ₹4–5L a month.
• Same product: traffic and features unchanged for users.
• Owned: the platform runs on infrastructure the company controls.

Solution

We mapped every workload, removed what was redundant, and designed a private cloud with data-centre partners. Services moved in phases, each with a rollback path.

Full write-up (phases, architecture, stack table, hand-over) to be completed with the founder.