Escaping AWS: How a Danish Firm Slashed Cloud Costs by 90% While Maintaining ISO 27001

A Danish workforce management company successfully migrated away from AWS, reducing its cloud costs by 90%. Facing compliance concerns and high expenses with US cloud providers, they switched to European providers like Hetzner and OVHcloud. By leveraging infrastructure-as-code with Ansible, Prometheus/Grafana/Loki for monitoring, and a security-by-design approach, they not only cut costs but also enhanced data sovereignty and security compliance. They also used their European hosting as a sales tool, strengthening brand trust.