> What is the advantage of paying 270€ per month for a 60GB RAM instance with 8 cores if you can get the same instance on Contabo for 27€?
For some random raw EC2 server? Zilch. Zero. EC2 isn't really worth it by itself.
But EC2 isn't the only thing AWS has. Devs are pretty expensive. If you just need to run some random code in the cloud, futzing with a server somewhere for a couple hours making sure it's compliant with all of the enterprise standards costs many hundreds of dollars in dev pay. Lambda just works, and has a free tier. Setting up a proper queuing system is annoying and takes a few hours to do right. That's another couple hundred dollars. SQS is reasonably good and you can have that dev go do other things instead.
These things start to add up fast, and when you do everything yourself, you start to end up with thousands of dollars per month in maintenance costs. You can absolutely do that with AWS as well, but the goal is usually to just let AWS take care of that and have your employees do something that's actually valuable to the business (usually implementing proprietary business logic, which neither AWS nor Hetzner will do for you).
For some random raw EC2 server? Zilch. Zero. EC2 isn't really worth it by itself.
But EC2 isn't the only thing AWS has. Devs are pretty expensive. If you just need to run some random code in the cloud, futzing with a server somewhere for a couple hours making sure it's compliant with all of the enterprise standards costs many hundreds of dollars in dev pay. Lambda just works, and has a free tier. Setting up a proper queuing system is annoying and takes a few hours to do right. That's another couple hundred dollars. SQS is reasonably good and you can have that dev go do other things instead.
These things start to add up fast, and when you do everything yourself, you start to end up with thousands of dollars per month in maintenance costs. You can absolutely do that with AWS as well, but the goal is usually to just let AWS take care of that and have your employees do something that's actually valuable to the business (usually implementing proprietary business logic, which neither AWS nor Hetzner will do for you).