Rising hyperscaler costs are prompting many growing companies to rethink their cloud strategy, especially when their teams are not built around deep infrastructure expertise. Alstin Capital, a B2B venture capital firm, faced exactly this challenge. Together with mogenius, the company solved it with a migration that took two days.
Alstin Capital is a B2B venture capital firm with investments including Klarna, Pliant, and Blacklane. The company takes a strongly data driven approach to investing. Its internal tools process large volumes of data to identify signals and surface promising startups within its deal flow.
Alstin Capital originally ran its infrastructure on a major hyperscaler. As data volumes and the team grew, infrastructure costs began to increase disproportionately.
At the same time, Alstin Capital wanted developers and teams without a specialized infrastructure or CI/CD background to remain productive. The goal was a cloud native developer experience that was easy to use, without the operational overhead of managing a complex infrastructure stack in house.
“Ease of use is the most important factor for us because we are a small team. mogenius also provides excellent support, which was not our experience with the hyperscalers.”
Alstin Capital knows the cloud and Kubernetes market well and evaluated several options before making a decision. mogenius stood out because it combined a straightforward implementation with competitive cloud infrastructure from a German provider, rather than relying on hyperscaler infrastructure.
For a company operating in the regulated financial sector, sovereignty was another important consideration. Alstin Capital wanted the option to run its workloads on sovereign infrastructure hosted in Germany.
mogenius built a complete managed Kubernetes environment for Alstin Capital, running on virtual servers provided by a regional German cloud provider. The platform uses Talos OS, a lightweight and immutable operating system designed for Kubernetes.
The entire environment was provisioned as Infrastructure as Code and includes:
The setup consists of two separate clusters. One is used for development, staging, and user acceptance testing, while the other is dedicated to production.
mogenius manages the Kubernetes and cluster lifecycle, provides the underlying infrastructure, and supported the migration of existing workloads from the previous hyperscaler. Alstin Capital continues to operate its own workloads through the mogenius platform, with mogenius providing additional DevOps services where needed. Pipelines, monitoring, and access control are managed centrally through the platform.
AI powered platform capabilities are already part of the workflow. Through the MCP interface, coding agents such as Claude Code and OpenCode can interact with platform features autonomously. Each agent is granted only the permissions required for its specific task, which is the same mechanism described in our AI governance use case.
“We were looking for a solution that would be easy for a growing team to operate, without having costs spiral the way they did with a hyperscaler. We wanted our infrastructure and toolchain to simply run without having to manage everything ourselves. We took a close look at the market, and mogenius was clearly the most straightforward option, combined with the most cost effective cloud resources in Germany.”
In two days, Alstin Capital moved from a traditional hyperscaler setup to a sovereign, easy to operate managed Kubernetes platform without having to build an in house infrastructure team.
The next step is to expand its use of the platform’s AI powered capabilities and further automate Kubernetes operations.
That is often the point where a sovereign, easy to operate Kubernetes platform is worth a conversation. Tell us about your setup, or read how other teams did it.
With a well prepared migration and Infrastructure as Code in place, a move can be completed within a few days, as it was for Alstin Capital. The key factors are clearly defined workloads, ready to use GitOps pipelines, and a platform that takes care of cluster lifecycle management. Kubernetes management platforms such as mogenius can reduce migration timelines from weeks to days by taking over the underlying platform operations.
Yes, provided that the underlying infrastructure and the operator meet the required certification, auditability, and data sovereignty requirements in Germany. For financial services companies and investment firms, these requirements can be the decisive factor when choosing a regional German cloud provider instead of a global hyperscaler. Managed Kubernetes providers such as mogenius build and operate environments designed around those compliance requirements.
One cluster carries development, staging, and user acceptance testing, the other carries production only. The separation keeps test workloads away from production capacity and makes access rules easier to reason about, because production access can be granted to a smaller group without restricting day to day work in the other environments.
It depends on where the boundary sits. Alstin Capital operates its own workloads, pipelines, and monitoring through the mogenius platform, while cluster lifecycle management and the underlying infrastructure stay with mogenius. That split is what allows a small team without dedicated infrastructure staff to work on Kubernetes without becoming cluster administrators.
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