What would switching providers actually take?
The bill is the easy part to compare. The hard part is what a move costs in engineering time, calendar time, and data gravity — before anything runs. Enter your setup for a transparent estimate of a do-it-yourself migration, and what the same move looks like managed.
your current setup
Default is AWS list internet egress; negotiated and PrivateLink rates differ — set yours.
estimated do-it-yourself timeline
Transfer math: 3 TB × 8,000 Gb/TB ÷ (1.5 Gbps × 86,400 s/day) = 0.2 days of pure transfer, plus overhead for retries and verification. Every input above is yours to adjust.
what a DIY migration costs — your estimates
These are your estimates, computed from your inputs — not figures we claim about your team. The real cost is the same either way you move: engineer time diverted from your product while the migration runs.
DIY vs Nestor-managed migration
you run it
- 2 engineers own driver/CUDA/NCCL parity, storage layout, and networking on the new provider.
- 3 TB moved, verified, and re-permissioned by your team.
- Re-benchmarking and burn-in on your calendar, before real work resumes.
- Estimated 3–8 days and 36–84 engineer-hours, by your inputs.
Nestor runs it
- We migrate your workloads onto clusters we run for you — an extension of your SRE team, coordinating capacity across our partner network.
- Environment parity, data movement, and cutover are our job; your engineers stay on your product instead of babysitting a migration.
- Validation and re-benchmarking included; your team accepts the environment before billing starts.
- For larger moves, a paid 48-hour validation run benchmarks the exact hardware before you commit anything.
- No lock-in on the other side: root access, your own SSH keys, standard Ubuntu. If you ever leave, the environment goes with you.
The long poles are almost always environment parity and re-benchmarking, not the copy itself. That work lands on whoever owns the migration — the question is whether that is your team or ours.
take this with you
We will email you this estimate with your inputs, or copy a link to share with your team.