How We Saved Companies Up to 90% on Cloud Costs – Focus on AWS EC2 & RDS

Cloud costs too high?
With our WZ-IT Migration Framework, customers save an average of 60–90% on their monthly AWS costs – without performance loss.
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Many of our customers come to us with exactly this problem:
AWS bills that explode month after month.
EC2 (Compute) and RDS (Databases) in particular are almost always among the biggest cost drivers.

Here's an example from one of our customers:

Our Approach: WZ-IT Migration Framework

Instead of blindly downsizing instances, we follow a structured approach:

🔎 1. Analysis & Mapping

We examine existing AWS resources (EC2, RDS, Storage, Network) and map them to dedicated resources at European providers.
Result: Workloads can often be mapped 1:1, but at a fraction of the cost.

🔄 2. Planning New Infrastructure

• Resources are consolidated and optimally sized.
• Reserved overcapacity is eliminated.
• Network and storage costs are minimized through local alternatives.

📦 3. Performing the Migration

Often, even a lift-and-shift is possible:
The existing application is transferred with minimal adjustments.
For more complex architectures (e.g., RDS with replication), we use proven methods to minimize downtime.

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Example: 85% Savings for an E-Commerce Company

One customer (whom we unfortunately cannot name & whose costs we showed above in the screenshot from the AWS Billing Dashboard) was paying over $2,500 per month just for EC2 & RDS.
After migrating to dedicated resources at a European provider:
👉 Cost reduction to ~$380 per month.

Side effect: The new infrastructure is not only cheaper but also faster (dedicated CPU/RAM vs. shared AWS resources).

However, costs don't have to explode first to benefit from our approach. In a fairly recent case, we reduced costs to a third for a customer whose bill looked like this:

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Benefits of Our Approach

✅ Up to 90% lower costs (demonstrably achieved for customers)
✅ GDPR-compliant – Data stays in Europe
✅ More performance & control through dedicated hardware
✅ No more vendor lock-in – full flexibility

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Conclusion

AWS, Azure, and GCP have their place – but for many companies, they are oversized and unnecessarily expensive, especially when primarily using EC2 & RDS.

With our Migration Framework, we show you how to massively reduce your cloud costs and instead invest your budget in marketing, employees, or innovation.

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At WZ-IT, we handle consulting, analysis, migration, and operation of your infrastructure – away from AWS towards cost-efficient, European alternatives.

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