The VMware Exodus With Broadcom's acquisition of VMware causing massive licensing fee hikes, enterprise companies are scrambling for alternatives. The default reaction is often a lift-and-shift to AWS or Azure. However, this often replaces licensing bloat with compute bloat. In this tear-down, I dissect how I re-architected a high-traffic SaaS from a heavy AWS EC2/EKS environment to a bare-metal Proxmox LXC cluster, resulting in a 70% reduction in monthly cloud costs while increasing I/...