AWS vs Hetzner Cloud
AWS and Hetzner are rarely compared directly because they target different ends of the market — but for European workloads, the cost difference is striking. Hetzner's CX32 (4 vCPU/8GB RAM, NVMe) costs €5.92/month; the equivalent AWS t3.xlarge costs ~$133/month. This comparison examines when AWS's premium is justified and when Hetzner delivers equal value at a fraction of the cost.
Overall Score
Amazon Web Services
Tied
Wins 5/10 categories
Hetzner Cloud
Tied
Wins 5/10 categories
Our Verdict
Hetzner wins on price (5–10x cheaper), NVMe performance, and EU hosting. AWS wins on service breadth, global reach, serverless, managed databases, and enterprise compliance. For EU compute-only workloads: Hetzner. For complex multi-service architectures: AWS.
Pros & Cons
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Hetzner Cloud
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Which Should You Choose?
Choose AWS if…
Choose AWS when: you need specific managed services (RDS, Lambda, SageMaker), your users are globally distributed, you require enterprise compliance (HIPAA, FedRAMP), or your team is already AWS-experienced.
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Choose Hetzner when: your primary users are in Europe, you need raw compute at minimal cost, you're running straightforward VPS workloads (web servers, databases), or you want dedicated servers at 10x less than AWS.
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