[dustedcodes]

Hetzner is at best comparable to the very first version of AWS, but since then the "traditional" cloud has moved on. Hetzner is basically old school (I guess we can call this model old school now?) IaaS, whereas AWS, Azure and GCP are mostly PaaS now. At Hetzner you think about what infrastructure you need, at traditional cloud providers people don't think about infrastructure that much anymore and rather think about what ready made products they need.

[miohtama]

In AWS, you are not paying for CPU, you are paying for everything else (CPU probably sold on loss)

- Slighty modified open source infrastructure applications (PostgreSQL, etc.)

- Access management

- Brand

- Fancy deployment scripting (needed when > 15 VMs)

- egress cost (as mentioned in the article)

If you do not any of the above, you can roll out your own Redis and PSQL, or use a third party provider, Hetzner is often much better deal.