Migrating a High-Traffic Sports Platform from Hetzner to AWS

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This article is a historical account from the original blog. Technical and commercial conditions may have changed.

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.

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.

A staged migration strategy

Here’s how we did it:

What We Gained: Beyond Just Uptime

Lessons Learned (The Hard Way)

Even experienced teams hit snags.

Advice to Others

Closing Thoughts

Key takeaways

Assess workload dependencies and plan the migration in stages.
Validate application behavior and data before cutover.
Test monitoring, recovery and rollback against the actual environment.

Migrating a High-Traffic Sports Platform from Hetzner to AWS

Migrating a High-Traffic Sports Platform from Hetzner to AWS

Here’s how we did it:

Even experienced teams hit snags.

Key takeaways

Here’s how we did it:

Even experienced teams hit snags.

Key takeaways

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