Breaking the Limits: Migrating a High-Traffic Sports Platform from Hetzner to AWS
Breaking the Limits: Migrating a High-Traffic Sports Platform from Hetzner to AWS
The Backdrop: Solid but Stretched
The application was already in a good place by many standards — containerized, running on Kubernetes with Rancher, hosted on Hetzner bare-metal VMs. For years, this setup served them well.
But success brings scale. And scale reveals cracks.
The core issues on Hetzner weren’t about software quality or dev practices. They were infrastructural:
Why Move to AWS?
The decision to move wasn’t impulsive — it was born out of necessity. As our client’s business team looked toward global markets and larger-scale partnerships, they needed infrastructure that could match their ambition.
We helped them evaluate their options, and AWS stood out for several reasons:
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