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A simpler kind of cloud, with the engineering team included.

Dedicated EU-sovereign infrastructure, run for you 24/7 at one flat monthly price.

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  • 30%+lower than hyperscaler costs, at one flat monthly price
  • 24/7on-call engineers who know your stack
  • EUdedicated servers, with your data kept in the EU

Three problems we hear about most.

The bill keeps rising.

Hyperscaler costs go up month after month, through metered traffic, managed services, and usage-based pricing. There is no reliable way to plan and budget for them.

Monthly bill

The infrastructure team is overworked.

Requests from the business wait while the infrastructure team deals with growing platform complexity. Hiring and onboarding new infrastructure engineers is slow, and a wrong hire is expensive to reverse.

Requests from the business

Data sovereignty becomes a requirement.

Customers and industry rules increasingly require data to stay in the EU, with EU operators and fewer subprocessors. Every outside software service adds another name to that list.

Subprocessors5 vendors · mostly US
  • Cloud providerUS hyperscaler
  • Database serviceUS managed DB
  • Analytics serviceUS SaaS
  • Monitoring serviceUS SaaS
  • Logging serviceNon-EU SaaS

Hyperscalers made sense ten years ago. Two things have changed since.

Renting a hyperscaler's building blocks was the practical choice when servers were harder to scale and the software to run them was still young. For many growing software companies, that is no longer the case.

1

Servers became far more powerful.

A single modern dedicated server has the processing power, memory, and fast storage to do the work of many rented virtual machines, at a predictable monthly price.

2

Open source software matured.

The databases, monitoring, and other services that hyperscalers sell as managed products are now mature, widely trusted open source projects that run anywhere.

Lithus

What remains is running it well.

The hard part is now day-to-day operation: upgrades, security, backups, and being on-call. That is the part Lithus takes on, with engineers who know your stack.

So we remove the hyperscaler layers.

Your workloads run directly on dedicated servers, with nothing extra in between and no other companies sharing your hardware.

Hyperscaler layersLayers: 7 · Performance: variable

So we remove the hyperscaler layers.

Your workloads run directly on dedicated servers, with nothing extra in between and no other companies sharing your hardware. The bill becomes one flat monthly price.

Your bill becomes one flat monthly price.

With the metered layers gone, you pay the same amount every month, at least 30% less than with a hyperscaler.

Monthly bill
Month-to-month change

Your product runs on a solid foundation.

We plan the servers with your engineers and size them for your workloads. Modern dedicated hardware gives you performance that you can measure and plan around.

Application response time

Fewer companies handle your data.

We move the database, analytics, and monitoring services you buy from separate vendors onto your own dedicated servers. Each one we move comes off your list of subprocessors, and our engineers take over running it, so your team can focus on the product.

Who handles your data9 external vendors
Cloud providerDatabase SaaSObject storageMessage queueAnalytics SaaSMonitoring SaaSLogging SaaSAuth & secretsIncident paging
Your dedicated serversDatabases · Storage · Analytics · Monitoring · Auth
Lithus · EU data centresHardware & 24/7 platform operations

Your team gets engineers who know your stack.

Every month you have a set number of engineering days with dedicated Lithus engineers. Your team can call on them in Slack or Teams to work alongside them on what the business needs, or to do the work for them.

Requests from the business

Infrastructure you do not need to worry about.

  • A flat monthly price that you can plan around, at least 30% below hyperscaler costs.
  • Engineers who know your stack, work with your team in Slack or Teams, and are on-call 24/7.
  • Your data stays on dedicated servers in the EU, with fewer subprocessors.

We migrate you in three phases, and your current platform stays live until we are both confident.

We take responsibility for the migration and the risk that comes with it. Billing starts once your workloads run on the new platform.

Billing starts
Your current platform stays live throughout

1. Design together

We plan the hardware, setup, security, migration phases, and timeline closely with your engineering team. This usually takes 2–6 weeks, depending on your workloads and timeframes.

2. Build and migrate

We build your new platform and take responsibility for the migration, working with your engineers. Migration usually takes 2–6 weeks after the build.

3. Run it for you

You have a number of engineering days per month with dedicated engineers who know your stack, and your team can call on us for engineering and business needs.

  • Upgrades and patching
  • Backups
  • 24/7 on-call with a 4-hour response time
  • Direct contact in Slack or Teams

The engineers who build your platform are the ones who answer the page.

We have run production infrastructure since 2007 and Kubernetes since version 1.0 in 2015. There is no account-manager buffer or ticket queue: you work directly with the engineers running your cluster, while keeping full root and Kubernetes admin access.

Read our story & how we engineer →

2015Running Kubernetes in production since version 1.0 (and Linux servers since 2007), for SaaS platforms, IoT pipelines, and data workloads.
99.95%Availability SLA available, with a 4-hour engineering response time as standard. We architect clusters across independent nodes and EU sites so hardware faults self-heal, backed by 24/7 engineers who own root-cause resolution.
ISO 27001Deployed in ISO 27001-certified EU data centres (Germany, the Netherlands, and France), with Lithus's own ISO 27001 certification completing in Q1 2027.
XDI Systems
Impact45% cost reduction on predictable bare-metal servers, with custom tooling, migrated databases, and a high-speed private network
Client quote
“We got a team that built us custom tooling, migrated our databases, deployed a private network, and responds on Slack within hours. AWS doesn’t offer that at any price.”— Tim McEwan, CTO, XDI Systems
Read the case study →PrepBusiness
ImpactEliminated recurring 2-minute database lockup outages, with twice the server resources at the same monthly cost
Client quote
“Instead of just migrating our infrastructure, they solved problems we’d been struggling with for months, without us having to hire additional staff.”— Keith Brink, Founder, PrepBusiness
Read the case study →Futurepump
ImpactDashboard analytics query time dropped from 600ms to 300ms (50% faster), with no cost increase in two years
Client quote
“Our latencies halved when we moved to Lithus, and our costs haven’t changed in two years. We don’t think about infrastructure anymore.”— Toby Hammond, CEO, Futurepump
Read the case study →

Common questions

Are we locked in to Lithus?+

No. You get full administrator access, the source code for the work we do on your behalf, and a platform built on widely used open source software that any capable team can run.

What happens if the migration goes wrong?+

We take on the risk of performing a successful migration. Your current infrastructure stays live until both of us are confident, and billing starts once your workloads run on the new platform.

Where is our data, and who can access it?+

Your data stays on dedicated servers in ISO 27001-certified EU data centres, run by our team, with Lithus's own ISO 27001 certification completing in Q1 2027. That leaves far fewer subprocessors to list in your customers' security reviews — see our privacy & subprocessors overview.

What happens to our own engineers?+

Your team keeps ownership of the application. We own the platform and are on-call for the services we deploy, and we work with your engineers directly in Slack or Teams.

What does support include?+

You have dedicated engineers who know your stack, a number of engineering days per month, and 24/7 on-call. Our standard response time is 4 hours, and a 99.95% availability SLA is available.

Will this work for a company like ours?+

Our clients include software platforms and connected-device (IoT) businesses. If you have a software team and spend €100k or more per year on cloud, we are likely to be a good fit. We look at your setup and your bills and tell you what we think, including when we think it will not work.

One flat monthly price, with engineering time included.

Our clients pay at least 30% less than they did with hyperscalers, and this includes our engineers' time. Send us a recent cloud bill and we will calculate your exact quote at no cost.

AWS, Azure, Google CloudBare metal you run yourselfManaged Kubernetes providersLithus
PricingDifficult to forecastMajor savings on servers, plus the engineers you hireOften on top of hyperscaler platform costsFlat monthly price, committed long-term
On-callYour teamYour teamVaries by providerOur engineers, 24/7
SupportMinimal direct supportHardware support onlyTicketing systemEngineers who know your stack, in Slack or Teams
MigrationYour teamYour teamUsually your teamWe run it and take on the risk
Lock-inProprietary servicesLowVaries by providerPortable open source tooling, with admin access and your source code

Talk directly with an engineer who runs production clusters.

  1. 1Book a 30-minute call with one of our engineers to walk through your current stack
  2. 2Optionally share a recent cloud bill so we can model your exact hardware and savings
  3. 3Receive a costed migration plan, a fixed monthly price, and a candid view on whether we are a good fit
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