Cloud exit assessment: leave AWS, Azure or Google Cloud with a plan
Your cloud bill keeps rising, dependency on a US provider should shrink, but nobody knows what a move really means? We analyse your invoices and resources, make dependencies on managed services visible and design the target setup in European data centres or on your own hardware. You receive a decision paper with the cost picture, a migration path and a fixed-price proposal for the migration.
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Starting point
You are considering a cloud exit, but the basis for the decision is missing
- The AWS, Azure or Google Cloud bill keeps growing, and hardly anyone can explain it line by line
- Data protection, customer requirements or dependency on a US provider point towards European data centres or your own hardware
- Managed services such as databases, queues or serverless functions make it unclear what can be moved at all
- Management needs costs, risks and sequence before deciding
A decision paper instead of an estimate
At the end you know what a move costs, what it saves, which risks it carries and in which order it works. The report is yours and remains usable without a follow-up order.
Cost picture today and in the target setup
Your invoices or cost export broken down by service and compared with the sized target setup, including data transfer, licences and operations.
Dependencies and target architecture
Which managed services have an equivalent, which need to be replaced or rebuilt, and what the target setup looks like with European providers or on your own hardware.
Migration path and fixed-price proposal
Order of the workloads, risks, test run, cutover and rollback path, plus the fixed-price proposal for the migration.
Neutral, with an honest limit: if a move does not pay off or staying with cost optimisation fits better, the recommendation says so. WZ-IT offers migration and operations; the decision stays with you.
Only want to know whether a move pays off? The free cloud cost analysis compares your bill with a European target architecture.
Four steps to a cloud exit decision
Read access, exports and a conversation with your IT team are enough for the assessment. Your cloud environment stays unchanged.
- 01
Collect invoices and inventory
Invoices or cost export, resource list, architecture documents and known requirements for availability and data location.
- 02
Assess dependencies
Every service in use is classified: directly portable, replaceable with open-source software, or only replaceable by changing the application.
- 03
Design the target setup
Size servers, databases, storage, network, backup and operations for European data centres or your own hardware and compare the costs.
- 04
Prepare the decision
You receive the report, migration path and fixed-price proposal and discuss the outcome with management and IT.
What we need for the assessment
- Invoices or cost export from recent months
- Read access to the cloud accounts or a resource list
- Contacts for applications, databases and operations
- Requirements for availability, data location and maintenance windows
Costs, dependencies and migration path in one assessment
The assessment covers one cloud environment with its accounts, services and data. Very large environments or environments spread across several providers are scoped before you order.
Cost analysis
Analyse invoices or the cost export by service, environment and cost driver such as data transfer, storage and licences.
Inventory
Capture compute, databases, storage, network, identities, backups and integrations.
Lock-in assessment
Classify managed services such as databases, queues, serverless functions or identity services one by one and name alternatives.
Target architecture
Target setup in European data centres, on your own hardware or hybrid, with sizing, backup and operating model.
Migration path
Sequence, test run, data transfer, cutover, rollback path and the main risks per step.
Decision paper and proposal
Cost comparison, recommendation and fixed-price proposal for the migration.
Boundary
The assessment plans the exit, the migration carries it out
- Changes to the existing cloud environment
- Rebuilding applications that depend on proprietary managed services (part of the migration)
- Contract or legal advice on your cloud agreements
- Applications on platforms such as Vercel or Heroku: the PaaS Exit Review covers those
Price
Assessment with a defined scope, migration after the decision
Scope and price of the assessment are fixed before you order. We only know the scope of the migration after the inventory, so you receive the fixed-price proposal for it together with the report.
Cloud exit assessment
from €1,490
excl. VAT, one-time
Credited against the migration if you order it within 6 months on the same topic.
For one environment on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud before deciding on a move.
- Cost analysis from invoices or cost export
- Inventory and lock-in assessment per service
- Target architecture in European data centres or on your own hardware
- Migration path with risks and rollback path
- Results meeting and fixed-price proposal for the migration
Outcome: Decision paper with the cost picture today and in the target setup, dependencies, target architecture, migration path and fixed-price proposal.
Cloud migration
On proposal
Fixed-price proposal with the report
Move the environment along the migration path and hand it over to operations.
Building blocks
- Target setup with backup and monitoring
- Test run with copies of the data
- Data transfer and cutover in the agreed maintenance window
- Rollback path until acceptance
- Decommissioning plan for the source environment
- Transition to managed operations
Outcome: Running target setup with acceptance, documented architecture and defined operations.
Remote is the default; on-site sessions are charged with travel costs. You pay consumption and licence costs directly to the respective provider. The report is yours and remains usable without a follow-up order.
All prices are net and exclude statutory VAT. The offers are addressed to businesses.
Migration and operations from one provider
If the target setup holds up, we migrate the environment and, if you wish, keep operating it, on servers in your own account with the provider or on your hardware.
Cloud migration
Target architecture, test run, data transfer and cutover with a rollback path for your workloads.
View migrationfrom €149.90 excl. VAT / server and monthManaged Server
Monitoring, updates, backups and agreed response for the migrated systems.
View operationsfrom €1,490 excl. VATPaaS Exit Review
For applications on Vercel, Heroku, Railway or similar platforms: clarify dependencies and the target model before migrating.
View the reviewFrequently asked questions about the cloud exit assessment
Costs, difference from the cost analysis, dependencies and operations
The cloud exit assessment costs from €1,490 excl. VAT for one cloud environment. It covers cost analysis, inventory, lock-in assessment, target architecture and migration path. You receive the fixed-price proposal for the migration with the report. The assessment price is credited if you order the migration within 6 months on the same topic.
The free cloud cost analysis answers whether a move pays off: it compares your current bill with a sized European target architecture. The cloud exit assessment also answers how the move succeeds: dependencies of every managed service, a target architecture that can include your own hardware, a migration path with risks and rollback, and a fixed-price proposal for the migration.
That depends on the number of workloads, the data volume and the managed services in use. Besides the migration project, there are costs for parallel operation during the transition and for data transfer out of the cloud. The EU Data Act has applied since 12 September 2025: from 12 January 2027, switching charges including data egress charges for switching providers are removed entirely; until then, providers may only charge the costs they incur (European Commission, Data Act). The assessment sets all items against the target setup.
For most companies it is risk management rather than a general requirement. For operators of critical infrastructure, UP KRITIS and the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) have published recommendations for preparing an exit strategy for cloud services (BSI, UP KRITIS, German). Whether your sector has its own requirements is a question for your compliance or legal advisers; the assessment provides the technical basis.
Not automatically. Multi-cloud spreads workloads, but it does not remove dependency if every environment relies on proprietary managed services. What matters is whether data and applications can be moved with reasonable changes. That is exactly what the assessment evaluates for every service in use.
For servers, object storage, databases and load balancers there are equivalent building blocks at European providers or as open-source software, for example S3-compatible object storage and managed or self-run PostgreSQL. Proprietary services such as DynamoDB, Lambda or Cosmos DB take more work and require changes to the application. The migration guides for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud show what that looks like per source.
That depends on the number of workloads, data volume, dependencies and the available maintenance windows. The migration path in the assessment sets the sequence; you receive the schedule with the fixed-price proposal for the migration.
No. We work with invoices, cost exports, read access and your documentation. Changes only happen in a separately ordered migration.
Yes. Managed Server with monitoring, updates, backups and agreed response starts at from €149.90 excl. VAT / server and month. The servers can stay in your own account with the provider, so you remain the data centre's contracting party.
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Name the provider, the services in use and the main reason for the move. We confirm scope and price before you order.
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