Common questions, clear answers

Our platform works in two stages. First, you connect your cloud accounts (AWS, Azure, GCP, or DigitalOcean) via a secure, read-only integration to instantly access our free infrastructure dashboard. This dashboard immediately maps your global resources, breaks down your monthly spend by category, and flags “zombie” resources bleeding your budget.

Second, if you want a strategic roadmap, you can generate a Cloud Repatriation Blueprint. Our engine models your exact current resource usage against high-performance bare metal providers to generate a step-by-step financial and technical blueprint for repatriation.

You get an unlimited dashboard showing cost breakdowns, zombie resource mapping, and cross-account visibility for all your connected clouds.

You get custom architectural mappings to bare metal providers, projected savings over 1, 3, and 5 years, an exact ROI calculation (break-even point), and fixed-price migration execution quotes from Yellowstone Labs.

Yes, you can connect as many cloud accounts as you need into your free dashboard to view all resources under one unified pane of glass.

The blueprint suggests bare metal providers based on geographic and generic security matching, but deep compliance audits (HIPAA, SOC2) require custom engineering review which we offer as an add-on service.

Moving off the cloud requires careful engineering. Key risks include the loss of proprietary managed services (requiring your team to self-host databases or Kubernetes clusters) and the upfront engineering effort required to migrate. We mitigate these risks by recommending Hybrid setups where appropriate and providing fixed-price migration execution through our parent company, Yellowstone Labs.

We actively encourage this. Our engine allows you to model hybrid architectures, pushing steady-state compute to bare metal while keeping unpredictable, variable workloads in AWS or GCP.

Yes. Yellowstone Labs employs a veteran team of software architects and DevOps engineers who will execute the migration outlined in your blueprint.

The tool is highly effective at mapping standard compute, storage, and networking. For bespoke, deeply intertwined proprietary systems, the analyzer serves as a baseline, and our engineering team can follow up with a manual architectural audit.

Security is our top priority. We require Read-Only access to your cloud billing and usage APIs. We never ask for write access, administrative privileges, or access to your application data, PII, databases, or source code. We cannot make changes to your live environment. All cloud credentials and API keys are stored securely using AES-256-GCM encryption at rest and are only used to safely query your infrastructure metadata.

Not at this time. To ensure 100% accuracy on resource matching and utilization metrics, direct, read-only API access is required.

Our report specifically targets the rent-seeking fees built into hyperscale clouds:

• Egress Fees: AWS and GCP charge exorbitant fees to transfer data out to the internet. Bare metal providers typically include unmetered bandwidth or charge a fraction of a penny per GB.
• Provisioned IOPS & API Calls: Extra fees for faster hard drive speeds and internal network requests.
• NAT Gateways & Elastic IPs: Nickel-and-dime charges for basic network routing. By moving to bare metal, these variable, hidden costs are replaced by a single, predictable monthly hardware fee.

While every workload is different, companies repatriating steady-state compute and egress-heavy applications typically see a 40% to 70% reduction in their monthly infrastructure costs.

The payback period calculated in your blueprint is the time (in months) it will take for your new monthly savings to completely cover the one-time engineering cost of the migration.

Cloud Repatriation (or “Reverse Cloud Migration”) is the strategic optimization of moving workloads away from hyperscale clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) to more cost-effective, controllable infrastructure. While the “Cloud First” era focused on startup agility, the market is shifting toward “Cloud Smart” strategies for mature companies. This typically involves migrating steady-state workloads to high-performance Bare Metal Providers, Colocation Facilities, or Hybrid Cloud environments to drastically reduce the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS).

The cloud is incredible for startups optimizing for speed over cost. But as a company scales, the cloud becomes an anchor on gross margins. The paradox is that the very infrastructure that enabled your initial growth eventually throttles your profitability.

We are vendor agnostic, but our engine frequently models against industry leaders like Hetzner, OVH, and Equinix, who provide massive raw compute power and unmetered bandwidth without the hyperscale markup.