Most people who reach out to us want the same thing but barely dare say it out loud: can we really move off a hyperscaler without everything falling apart? The answer is usually yes, and the migration follows a recognizable pattern.
Step one: map the dependencies
The biggest cost in a migration is rarely the data — it’s the proprietary services you’ve built yourself into. The first step is to separate what’s standard (VMs, storage, networking, containers) from what’s vendor-specific. What’s standard moves easily.
Step two: move the portable first
We recommend starting with workloads that are already portable. They give a quick win, build internal confidence and show the stack behaves as expected in the EU. Open standards underneath mean most things feel familiar from day one.
The hard part of leaving isn’t the technology. It’s deciding to.
— from Kepler’s migration notes
What you gain
On the other side there are predictable costs, a jurisdiction that holds, and a stack that’s exportable as code — so the next move, if it’s ever needed, is easy. It’s not a one-time rescue from lock-in; it’s a structure that keeps you free.
Considering a move? Get in touch and we’ll walk through your dependencies together.