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Cheaper Alternatives to AWS in 2026: What Each One Cuts

Pratik Kulkarni
Cloud Architecture , Cost Optimisation
21 Aug, 2026

There is no single cheapest alternative to AWS, because AWS bills are not shaped the same way. A bill dominated by EC2 has a different answer from one dominated by egress, RDS or GPU-hours. And severa

Hetzner vs AWS: The Real Cost Difference in 2026

Pratik Kulkarni
Cloud Architecture , Cost Optimisation
21 Aug, 2026

For a standing 8-vCPU, 16 GB server, AWS charges about $212 per month on demand and Hetzner charges €20.99, or roughly $25. That is a factor of nine, and it is not a rounding error. The gap is also no

Leaving AWS for Hetzner: What You Have to Rebuild

Pratik Kulkarni
Cloud Architecture , Implementation
21 Aug, 2026

Moving from AWS to Hetzner keeps compute, block storage, private networking, load balancers, DNS and object storage, and replaces the managed database, the managed Kubernetes control plane, IAM, Cloud