37signals CTO claims cost of new hardware was 'entirely recouped' as contracts expired after AWS exit
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.A couple of years ago, 37signals was aghast to find it had run up charges of $3,201,564 on cloud services, a large chunk of which was going to Amazon Web Services (AWS), as The Register detailed previously.The developer of project management platform Basecamp then embarked on a plan to invest in new servers and gradually migrate its applications and customer data to its own infrastructure instead.