[rusteh1]

I'm not familiar with Hetzner at all. But it seems they are running a single self managed VM to serve these updates globally, and then comparing that to the cost of egress on a globally distributed content delivery network? What am I missing here? This is not the same thing. Nevermind the fact that AWS is an ecosystem with hundreds of products working in tandem to deliver solutions not just EC2.

[zwass]

I don't think you're missing anything! We didn't need 100% uptime or a globally distributed CDN. What we did need is orders of magnitude cheaper costs. So we moved this particular part of our offering to Hetzner.

I think the interest in this comes from the idea of identifying the needs and optimizing appropriately.

[StopHammoTime]

Yes, but AWS egress on EC2 is still 0.02c outbound from EC2 (4x savings). The egress fees are still egregious via a comparable EC2 instance. Then of course, once you factor in that AWS push "S3 via CloudFront" as the gold standard in static asset hosting it smells even more.