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by Sayrus 21 days ago
As much as I love to discuss how expensive AWS is, I find this comparison quite strange:

- Small instances are used, including a burstable instance for AWS, with no indication on where and how much throttling happened. Saying that the instance is burstable but a price-match isn't even true because later it is discussed that $48 is not a match in price due to services around the instance itself

- It seem Hostim doesn't support large instances, the largest dedicated instance offers 100GB / 4 Cores / 8 GB RAM. At that price point, you either go with AWS for prototyping speed or compliance but definitely not for performance.

- Talking about speed, you got performance, but you'll now spend time developing your own backup and restore processes which are a "coming later" feature. What's the impact of backups compared to disk snapshots on those other network-attached disks?

- It mentions only once the network-attached block storage used by RDS and the Hetzner instance compared. Which is weird because you could go for local storage for cheaper and get more performances, but that introduces some trade-offs.

- Instances are configured with different settings.