The Basics
Hetzner
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Microsoft Azure
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|---|---|---|
| Website | hetzner.com | azure.microsoft.com |
| Headquarters | Germany 🇩🇪 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 1997 | 2008 |
| Data Center Locations | 5 | 66 |
| Example Customers | Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc | General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA |
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Hetzner
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|---|---|
| Website | hetzner.com |
| Headquarters | Germany 🇩🇪 |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Data Center Locations | 5 |
| Example Customers | Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc |
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Microsoft Azure
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|
|---|---|
| Website | azure.microsoft.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2008 |
| Data Center Locations | 66 |
| Example Customers | General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA |
Cost Comparison
How do Hetzner's prices compare against Microsoft Azure?
| Example configuration |
Hetzner
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Microsoft Azure
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|---|---|---|
| VM Small | $4.86 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (CX11) | $7.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B1s) |
| VM Medium | $17.43 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CPX31) | $137.52 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (A4v2) |
| VM Large | $62.18 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (CCX33) | $288.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (A8v2) |
| Block Storage | $5.64 / mo 100 GB | $9.60 / mo 128 GiB |
| Object Storage | -- | $21.50 / mo 1 TB |
| Load Balancer | $6.91 / mo LB11 | $23.25 / mo Standard |
| Managed PostgreSQL | -- | $131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5) |
| Managed Redis®* | -- | $39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1) |
| Serverless 25M Executions | -- | $29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration |
| Free egress allowance | 20-60 TB / mo per instance | 100 GB / mo |
| 1 TB of egress beyond allowance | $1.09 | $78.30 |
Note: These pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.
Which services do they offer?
Here are some of the managed services that Hetzner and Microsoft Azure offer:
| Service |
Hetzner
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Microsoft Azure
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|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | ||
| Content Delivery Network (CDN) | -- | |
| Container Registry | -- | |
| GPU-powered Servers | -- | |
| Load Balancer | ||
| Managed Containers | -- | |
| Managed Kubernetes | -- | |
| Managed MySQL | -- | |
| Managed PostgreSQL | -- | |
| Managed Redis®* | -- | |
| Object Storage | -- | |
| Serverless Cron Jobs | -- | |
| Serverless Functions | -- | |
| Static Sites | -- | |
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) |
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Our data for Hetzner was last updated on Feb. 29, 2024, and for Microsoft Azure on Feb. 10, 2024.