# Lithus

> Lithus is a managed EU-sovereign cloud and Kubernetes platform run on dedicated bare-metal servers in ISO 27001-certified European data centres, with 24/7 on-call engineering included at one predictable monthly price, for at least 30% less than AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.

## Overview

- **Entity**: Lithus UK Ltd (established in the United Kingdom in 2007), with German GmbH formation completing in Q1 2027
- **Track record**: Running production Linux infrastructure since 2007 and Kubernetes in production since version 1.0 in 2015
- **Core platform**: Reproducible NixOS and Kubernetes (`kix`) on dedicated bare-metal servers in European data centres (Germany, the Netherlands, and France via providers such as Hetzner, Worldstream, and OVHcloud)
- **Managed services included**: PostgreSQL, Redis/Valkey, object storage (S3-compatible), replicated NVMe block storage, message queues, ingress & TLS, CI/CD, observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki), and automated encrypted off-site backups
- **Support & SLA**: Direct Slack/Teams access to the engineers who build and run the platform; 24/7 on-call with a 2-hour standard engineering response time and up to a 99.95% availability SLA
- **No lock-in**: Clients hold full root and Kubernetes cluster-admin access, plus the source code and declarative configuration for everything deployed on their behalf
- **Migration**: Performed by Lithus alongside the client's existing environment; billing starts only once production workloads run on the new platform

## Pricing

- Plans start from **€5,000 per month**, with the price guaranteed in the contract and our clients paying at least **30% less** than they did with hyperscalers.
- All plans include dedicated EU bare-metal servers, managed Kubernetes and backing services, 24/7 monitoring and on-call engineering, monthly engineering days, automated backups, and the migration itself.

## Key Pages

- [Home](https://lithus.eu/): Overview of how Lithus replaces hyperscaler complexity and surprise bills with dedicated EU-sovereign infrastructure and an included engineering team.
- [Compare Your Setup](https://lithus.eu/compare): Side-by-side comparison of Lithus against AWS/GCP/Azure, DevOps consultancies, PaaS platforms, and DIY bare metal.
- [About Lithus](https://lithus.eu/about): Our engineering history from 2007 to today, leadership team, and company facts.
- [Privacy & Subprocessors](https://lithus.eu/privacy): Data protection, GDPR compliance, and full subprocessor register across client clusters, internal tooling, and corporate operations.
- [Security & Vulnerability Reporting](https://lithus.eu/security): Coordinated vulnerability disclosure policy, safe harbour, and security contact (`security@lithus.eu`).
- [Stay in Touch](https://lithus.eu/stay-in-touch): Request a technical reminder when your current cloud contract or credits come up for renewal.

## Customer Case Studies

- [XDI Systems (Climate Risk Analytics)](https://lithus.eu/customer-success/xdi): 45% cost reduction after migrating from three AWS EKS clusters to a 10-node multi-AZ bare-metal cluster in Germany, with 200 Gbps NVMe object storage, KubeVirt VMs managed via a custom Rust CLI, and StackGres PostgreSQL.
- [PrepBusiness (FBA Logistics SaaS)](https://lithus.eu/customer-success/prepbusiness): Migrated from AWS ECS, EKS, and RDS to a multi-node bare-metal cluster, eliminated recurring 2-minute database lockup outages, doubled hardware resources at the same monthly cost, and later consolidated a second DigitalOcean Kubernetes stack onto the same hardware at no additional cost.
- [Futurepump (Solar Irrigation IoT)](https://lithus.eu/customer-success/water-pump-iot): Dashboard analytics query latency dropped from 600ms to 300ms (50% faster) after migrating an MQTT + TimescaleDB IoT telemetry platform from Google Cloud to dedicated bare metal, with zero cost increase over two years.

## Contact

- **Email**: contact@lithus.eu
- **Book a call with an engineer**: https://neetocal.com/lithus/30-min-intro