Stop overpaying for the public cloud. Move the right workloads to dedicated infrastructure and keep the savings.
Cloud repatriation isn’t a retreat. It’s a strategic move to regain control of costs, performance, and compliance by shifting the right workloads off hyperscalers and onto infrastructure purpose-built for sustained demand.
37signals left the cloud. Now they save millions every year.
The makers of Basecamp and HEY were spending $300,000 a month on AWS and couldn’t get anyone on the phone. They moved to Summit. Here’s what happened.
The numbers speak for themselves.
Measured after migrating seven applications from AWS to Summit colocation in Ashburn and Chicago.
cloud spend
over five years
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With AWS, we give them $300,000 a month and they don’t care about us. They don’t answer our calls. But we call Summit and they’re on the phone with us immediately.
Colocation
Identical footprints in Summit’s Ashburn and Chicago data centers: (4) 48U cabinets at each site housing ~90 Dell R7625 servers, with 40kW of power split across four cabs per location.
Network Connectivity
Redundancy at every layer. External connections to the internet, AWS, and between data center sites, each using different providers and diverse physical paths for full resilience.
Disaster Recovery
Critical applications run across Ashburn (active) and Chicago (standby). Either site can absorb full traffic during a disaster event with minimal transition time.
Public cloud made sense. Until it didn’t.
The economics of hyperscale hosting have shifted. Companies with predictable workloads are finding that the flexibility premium no longer pays for itself.
Unpredictable Bills
Egress fees, data transfer charges, and tier pricing make month-over-month costs nearly impossible to forecast.
Vendor Lock-In
Proprietary tooling and licensing changes (like Broadcom’s 72-core VMware minimum) trap you in cost structures you didn’t sign up for.
Performance Ceiling
Noisy neighbors and virtualization overhead cap what your workloads can do, regardless of how much you spend.
No Support
Hyperscalers don’t answer the phone unless you have an enterprise contract. Summit engineers pick up, 24/7.
The workloads that win when they leave the cloud.
Not every workload belongs off the public cloud. These ones usually do.
A proven process, not a leap of faith.
Before we move anything, we audit your workloads, architectures, dependencies, and performance patterns. The Summit Repatriation Framework ensures every migration is de-risked at every stage, with fit-to-purpose solutions and minimal business disruption.
37signals pulled seven applications out of the cloud in six months. We’ve run this same process for companies migrating from AWS, GCP, and Azure. The result: right-sized infrastructure and performance you can measure.
Start Your AssessmentWorkload Audit
We analyze your current bills, architectures, peak loads, dependencies, and compliance requirements to identify which workloads are ready to move and which should stay.
Infrastructure Design
We design a fit-to-purpose environment: private cloud, bare metal, colocation, or hybrid. Configurations are scoped to your actual workloads, not a template.
Incremental Migration
We move workloads in stages. Each is validated before the next begins. No big-bang cutover, no surprise downtime.
Ongoing Optimization
Once live, we monitor performance, right-size resources, and surface opportunities to improve cost and throughput through the customer portal.
The modern data center is nothing like the one you left.
Today’s private infrastructure matches the best of what public cloud offers, without vendor lock-in, noisy neighbors, or unpredictable pricing.
Bring us your cloud bill. We’ll show you what Summit costs.
No commitment, no pressure. Customers typically save 30 to 70% on infrastructure costs after repatriating to Summit.
Signs it’s time to have the repatriation conversation.
You don’t have to be in crisis to benefit from repatriation. These patterns show up before the pain gets serious.
Egress line items you don’t recognize, tier changes you didn’t agree to. That’s the signal.
The 72-core minimum means paying for cores you’ll never use. Summit supports Hyper-V and Proxmox as VMware alternatives if you want to exit the Broadcom ecosystem entirely.
If your traffic patterns are stable, you’re paying for elasticity you don’t need. Dedicated infrastructure wins on price-to-performance for consistent demand.
HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI DSS are easier to demonstrate on single-tenant infrastructure where you control the entire stack.
Cloud GPU instance pricing escalates fast at scale. Dedicated GPU nodes on bare metal deliver the same throughput for a fraction of the per-hour cost.
If your hyperscaler won’t take your calls without an upgrade, that’s not a support model. Summit’s 24/7 support is included, not upsold.
Companies that made the move.
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We pulled seven applications out in six months. You can do that too. The tools are there. They’re free. So don’t stay in the cloud because of the hype.
Everything you need to think through repatriation.
Questions we hear before every migration.
Honest answers.
Ready to see what your workloads would cost off the cloud?
Bring your current cloud bill. We’ll come back with a cost comparison and infrastructure recommendation within one business day.
