What your cloud warehouse would cost in your own data center

Put your result in context

Two published figures for comparison. Both concern cloud infrastructure in general rather than a data warehouse specifically — and a credit-billed warehouse sits at the expensive end of that spectrum. That is why the model often lands above the band.

• 50–67 %

  saving if on-premises costs “one-third to one-half” of the cloud

  a16z, Sarah Wang und Martin Casado, „The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox“, 27. Mai 2021 ↗

• 55 %

  reached at 37signals, by their own figures: $3.2M before, $1.3M remaining plus hardware over five years

  37signals, „Our cloud-exit savings will now top ten million over five years“, 17. Oktober 2024 ↗

What this calculation does not include

• The migration itself: effort for transfer, reconciliation and parallel operation
• Double cost during parallel operation, while both systems run
• Floor space and connectivity if you have no data center of your own
• Failover capacity beyond the derived server count
• Your team learning Trino, Iceberg and the operational side
• Your commitments with the current vendor while the term runs