AWS to Hetzner Migration
A business-critical migration that reduced infrastructure cost by more than 90% and implemented automated disaster recovery with RTO under 30 minutes.
Business Problem
- AWS monthly cost had reached an unsustainable level and created direct financial pressure.
- Disaster recovery readiness was not strong enough for business continuity requirements.
Technical Solution
- Rebuilt infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code for repeatability and risk control.
- Migrated workloads to Kubernetes on Hetzner.
- Implemented CI/CD automation for build, test, and deployment.
- Automated daily and weekly backups with validated restore workflows.
- Added monitoring and alerting to increase deployment confidence and reliability.
Measurable Results
>90%
Infrastructure cost reduction
< 30 min
Tested disaster recovery RTO
Daily + Weekly
Automated backup schedules
Migration & Recovery Timeline
Phase 1
Cost & Architecture Audit
Analyzed billing drivers, service dependencies, and risk constraints.
Phase 2
Infrastructure as Code Rewrite
Rebuilt environment provisioning with reproducible infrastructure definitions.
Phase 3
Kubernetes Migration on Hetzner
Migrated services with controlled rollout and rollback strategies.
Phase 4
Backup & Recovery Automation
Implemented scheduled backups and tested recovery workflows.
Phase 5
Operational Hardening
Added CI/CD quality gates, observability, and operational runbooks.
Process visualization
AWS Cost Pressure → Infra Audit → IaC Rewrite → Kubernetes on Hetzner → CI/CD + Monitoring → Backup/Restore Automation