Hacker News with Generative AI: Cost Savings

37signals is completing its on-prem move (theregister.com)
Web software biz 37signals has started to migrate its data out of the cloud and onto on-prem storage – and expects to save a further $1.3 million (£980,000) a year after completing its high-profile cloud repatriation project and getting off AWS once and for all.

Cloud Computing, Data Storage, Cost Savings

57 points by xrayarx 12 days ago | 8 comments

37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account save millions (theregister.com)
Web software biz 37signals has started to migrate its data out of the cloud and onto on-prem storage – and expects to save a further $1.3 million (£980,000) a year after completing its high-profile cloud repatriation project and getting off AWS once and for all.

Cloud Computing, Cost Savings, Business, AWS, Data Migration

9 points by Bender 14 days ago | 0 comments

37signals Says Goodbye to AWS: Full S3 Migration and $10M in Projected Savings (systemadministration.net)
Software company 37signals — creator of Basecamp, HEY, and other productivity tools — has officially begun migrating its data off Amazon Web Services (AWS), completing one of the most high-profile cloud repatriation efforts in recent years.

Cloud Migration, AWS, Cost Savings, Software

101 points by bluedino 14 days ago | 54 comments

U.S. Gov't eliminates tape data storage at the GSA to save $1M per year (tomshardware.com)

Government, Data Storage, Cost Savings

20 points by voxadam 46 days ago | 8 comments

IBM seeks $3.5B savings for 2025; the next year all about AI, AI, and more AI (theregister.com)
IBM is again forecasting cost savings in the coming calendar year, which likely means one thing for its legions of workers – pedal fast and keep your heads down because headcount reductions may be on the way once more.

IBM, Cost Savings, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Technology

10 points by rntn 113 days ago | 3 comments

Basecamp-maker 37Signals says its "cloud exit" will save it $10M over 5 years (arstechnica.com)
37Signals is not a company that makes its policy or management decisions quietly.

Cloud Computing, Business, Cost Savings, Technology

6 points by ksec 213 days ago | 0 comments

Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free (theregister.com)
The web software biz that decided to exit the cloud after racking up a huge bill says it has saved almost $2 million in its first "clean year" after making the switch to on-prem, and has already recouped the costs of the extra hardware it needed.

Cloud Computing, Cost Savings, Software Development, Hardware

13 points by shaftoe444 214 days ago | 5 comments

Show HN: Llama Workspace – An Open Source ChatGPT Teams Alternative (llamaworkspace.ai)
We are an open and extensible ChatGPT Teams alternative. We work with any Large Language Model, on the infra of your choice, and help you cut subscription costs by up to 82%.

Open Source, ChatGPT, AI, Cost Savings

29 points by c990802 214 days ago | 8 comments

Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free (theregister.com)
The web software biz that decided to exit the cloud after racking up a huge bill says it has saved almost $2 million in its first "clean year" after making the switch to on-prem, and has already recouped the costs of the extra hardware it needed.

Cloud Computing, Cost Savings, Software Development, Technology

13 points by rntn 214 days ago | 5 comments

Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five years (world.hey.com)
We finished pulling seven cloud apps, including HEY, out of AWS and onto our own hardware last summer. But it took until the end of that year for all the long-term contract commitments to end, so 2024 has been the first clean year of savings, and we've been pleasantly surprised that they've been even better than originally estimated.