# Cloud Exit

> Leave cloud RDS without leaving the guarantees — the three-year cost math, a four-step migration road, and the experts behind it.

LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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Cloud exit is a financial and operational decision, not a slogan. The goal is
to leave managed RDS pricing without discarding high availability, backup,
observability, and accountable support.

## The decision path

1. **Model the current workload.** Compare like-for-like compute, memory,
   storage, topology, and payment terms over a three-year horizon.
2. **Recover the guarantees.** Map every managed-service promise to a tested
   self-hosted control: failover, point-in-time recovery, monitoring, upgrades,
   and incident response.
3. **Migrate in stages.** Rehearse, shadow, cut over, and retain a rollback path
   until the new system has proved itself.
4. **Operate with ownership.** Keep the data, automation, observability, and
   skills inside your own boundary; buy expert assurance where it is useful.

The [interactive solution page](/solutions/cloud-exit/) contains the current
calculator, assumptions, evidence, references, and service options.