Managed AI gateways charge a 5% tax on your LLM spend.
Add AWS NAT and egress fees ($0.09/GB), and cloud routing bleeds your budget.
Our SRE guide to self-hosting Envoy AI Gateway on Bare Metal:
⚡ C++ Performance: 5,000+ RPS per pod with 11µs overhead
🔄 Token-Encoded MCP: Stateful routing without Redis SPOFs
🛡️ NIST Governance: SPIFFE/SPIRE dynamic authorization
💻 Bare Metal: 100Gbps wire-speed with 0% egress fees
https://www.irexta.com/blogs/sovereign-ai-gateway-bare-metal/