Compare your on-premise costs vs Aphelion managed
Move the sliders to model your environment. We'll calculate the real annual cost difference — including the staff time you get back to focus on strategy instead of firefighting.
Higher uptime requirements mean more redundant infrastructure on both sides.
Annual cost breakdown
Itemised view so procurement can validate the numbers line-by-line.
| Line item | On-premise | Aphelion |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware & infrastructure | $80,000 | $85,000 |
| Power & cooling | $12,000 | $0 |
| Software licences | $30,000 | $0 |
| Hardware maintenance | $15,000 | $0 |
| Data centre space (99.99 uptime) | $35,000 | $0 |
| 24/7 NOC + SOC (Broadsword) | $0 | $15,000 |
| Backup & disaster recovery | $0 | $10,000 |
| IT staff | $240,000 | $160,000 |
| Total (annual) | $412,000 | $270,000 |
What's included in the Aphelion figure
The Aphelion managed cost isn't just infrastructure — it's the full operating model that lets your team focus on strategy instead of fire-fighting.
- 24/7 NOC + SOC monitoring (Broadsword MDR)
- Documented 99.99% uptime SLA
- <15min P1 incident response, 24/7
- Immutable backups + quarterly ransomware drills
- Named engineers accountable for your environment
- Quarterly service reviews with capacity, risk & cost reporting
- FinOps reviews — right-sizing, reservations, waste elimination
- Security patching & continuous vulnerability management
- Zero-downtime migration & rollback runbooks
- Client portal access (tickets, dashboards, change history)
Figures are indicative estimates based on industry-standard unit costs for hardware, power, software licensing, data centre space and IT salaries in the Indian Ocean region. Actual costs vary based on workload type, existing contracts, compliance scope and migration complexity. The free infrastructure assessment delivers a fixed-scope quote with documented assumptions.