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AWS vs Hetzner

AWS offers a wide range of managed services and extensive global infrastructure. Hetzner is known for its competitive pricing and robust hardware, appealing to cost-conscious users seeking high performance.

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What's good about...

Amazon Web Services logo AWS

  • Extensive range of managed services, from serverless to databases to queues to video streaming
  • Generous free tier and savings plan available to lock-in discounts
  • 30+ datacenter locations around the world

Hetzner logo Hetzner

  • High performance VPS configurations at affordable prices (shared, high memory, dedicated CPU)
  • Easy to use web console & developer tooling (Terraform SDKs, official CLI)
  • EU-based company, may simplify GDPR compliance for some

Price comparison

How do AWS's prices compare against Hetzner?

VM Small

Amazon Web Services AWS
$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)
Hetzner Hetzner
$6.98 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX23)

VM Medium

Amazon Web Services AWS
$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)
Hetzner Hetzner
$10.48 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX33)

VM Large

Amazon Web Services AWS
$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)
Hetzner Hetzner
$19.21 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX43)

Block Storage

Amazon Web Services AWS
$8.00 / mo 100 GB
Hetzner Hetzner
$5.13 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.63 / mo 1 TB
Hetzner Hetzner
$7.56 / mo 1 TB

Load Balancer

Amazon Web Services AWS
$22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer
Hetzner Hetzner
$8.73 / mo LB11

Managed PostgreSQL

Amazon Web Services AWS
$57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)
Hetzner Hetzner
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Managed Redis®*

Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.82 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)
Hetzner Hetzner
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Serverless 25M Executions

Amazon Web Services AWS
$36.26 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Hetzner Hetzner
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Free egress allowance

Amazon Web Services AWS
100 GB / mo
Hetzner Hetzner
1-60 TB / mo per instance

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Amazon Web Services AWS
$90.00 $0.09 / GB (North America)
Hetzner Hetzner
$1.17 €1 / TB

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Amazon Web Services AWS
Hetzner Hetzner
RTX PRO 6000 $3.36 $2.24

Billing Options

Amazon Web Services AWS
On-DemandReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)
Hetzner Hetzner
On-Demand

Available Models

AWS offers 18 GPU models, while Hetzner offers 2.

Amazon Web Services AWS
H100(6) H200(1) RTX PRO 6000(6) A100(6) L40S(24) B200(1) B300(1) V100(6) L4(30) T4(21)
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Hetzner Hetzner
RTX PRO 6000(1) RTX 4000 SFF Ada(1)

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that AWS and Hetzner offer:

Service AWS Hetzner
Analytics
App Testing
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
Crash Reporting
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Performance Monitoring
Push Notifications
Realtime Databases
Remote Config
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
User Authentication
Vector Databases
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Amazon Web Services AWS
aws.amazon.com
Hetzner Hetzner
hetzner.com
Headquarters
Amazon Web Services AWS
United States of America US flag
Hetzner Hetzner
Germany DE flag
Founded
Amazon Web Services AWS
2006
Hetzner Hetzner
1997
Data Center Locations
Amazon Web Services AWS
31
Hetzner Hetzner
6
Example Customers
Amazon Web Services AWS
Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro
Hetzner Hetzner
Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for AWS was last updated on Sept. 9, 2026, and for Hetzner on Aug. 31, 2026.