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Replace Amazon Web Services with Proxmox VE + Kubernetes + Terraform.

Amazon Web Services: IaaS/PaaS

Self-hosted private cloud with Proxmox VE for compute, Kubernetes for orchestration, and Terraform for declarative infrastructure. Eliminates AWS consumption billing. Run on your own hardware.

You'd keep~R111 000 to ~R1 110 000/year

Current licence  ·  Cloud Platform (IaaS)

Amazon Web Services

~R111 000 – ~R1 110 000/yr

10-user estimate

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Proxmox VE + Kubernetes + Terraform

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R1 110 000/yr

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Today's licence price

3 tiers. Amazon Web Services (IaaS/PaaS)'s prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Small (5 instances)

R111 000/yr

R9 250/month

Estimated monthly spend

With Proxmox VE + Kubernetes + Terraform

Keep R111 000/yr

Medium (20 instances)

R444 000/yr

R37 000/month

Estimated monthly spend

With Proxmox VE + Kubernetes + Terraform

Keep R444 000/yr

Large (50+ instances)

R1 110 000/yr

R92 500/month

Estimated monthly spend

With Proxmox VE + Kubernetes + Terraform

Keep R1 110 000/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Amazon Web Services grows around 10% per year on average. Proxmox VE + Kubernetes + Terraform hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR492kR983kR1475kR1966kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R1788kR111k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R7.90M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Amazon Web Services (IaaS/PaaS)Proxmox VE + Kubernetes + Terraform, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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