If you are wondering why we are so desperate to move from AWS to Hetzner, here is why

If my analysis is right we will bring this cost down to roughly $12k per year (max).

Now, thats a massive 70% reduction in costs.

For over 6.5 years we have been using AWS for all our infrastructure needs and I have seen a steady increase in the cloud costs month over month, literally. The funny part is from mid 2023 we have not really scaled any infrastructure, just a couple of servers here and there.

I almost feel like AWS is such a rip off.

Just to give you a simple comparison of server costs

AWS m5.2xlarge server with the following specs

8vCPU (Shared) / 32GB Memory

costs $0.384 per hour which means for 30 days it would cost us a massive $276.48 /month and this cost doesn’t include

1. Data transfer costs
2. Storage costs
3. VPC costs

On a Hetzner,

8 vCPU (Dedicated) / 32 GB Memory is just $52 /month

This is f**king dedicated, no one shares this system!!!!!

And, it includes

1. A massive 240 GB SSD
2. 30TB of data (outgoing), incoming traffic is f**king free!!!
3. 1 IPv4 Ip address
4. VPC (doesn’t cost any additional money)

AWS costs almost 6 times more!!!

Yes, 6 times!!!!

I am done with AWS.