# Meta is moving to the Cloud 🌩

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [October 26, 2017, 3:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819 "2017-10-26T03:49:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2018, 10:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/meta-is-moving-to-the-cloud/72819/30 "2018-07-09T22:56:14Z")

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We’ve slowly been working costs down as we go, and we have hosting meta down to around $1000/month on AWS – that’s with multiple tweaks over the last 6-8 months. When we started this it was closer to $3000/month. Really!

Before: **$2,717** / month

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/8/78b8f1f19340d6435f9d2cedab35227c71087710.jpg)

After: **$1,030.06** / month

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/2/a/2a65946593cfbb9d115c79e17c75a866e054bfb1.png)

Note that meta is deployed as “super enterprisey” in our testing so it is somewhat .. overprovisioned. 😉

We could do better long term by doing long term reserved instances which could cut the cost in half, essentially pre-paying for multiple years of service.

Any other thoughts this far in @sam?

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