[yaseer]

If anybody has migrated from AWS to Hetzner what was your experience? What kind of cost savings did you see?

I know it's not a like-for-like comparison, I am particularly curious about the price differentials though, AWS is often a premium.

[diggan]

I helped some smaller companies move from AWS EC2 to Hetzner dedicated servers. One example: Biggest cost saving was in the bandwidth bills. They also realized they don't really need to be able to scale up/down in minutes or having 6 instances online, but having two beefy machines lead to better performance, less latency and cheaper monthly bills.

Originally they just went with AWS because the developer who did infrastructure stuff was most (only?) used to it and had some certification or similar, without really thinking about why AWS. Reached out to me when they started to wonder why things were so expensive for what they were doing.

[CoolCold]

I do see a lot of cases when infra stuff is delegated to developer - usually in small companies.

You've pointed on very good point on scaling up/down vs cheap overprovisioning.

[CoolCold]

around one year ago I've evaluated how much it will cost me to run DB (MYSQL) server on RDS, taking current server (one of) as example.

If my memory serves me well, for medium sized DB of 2TB/160GB RAM/20+ cores, it was something like 2000$/month on RDS and around 230$ on Hetzner (with AX161, actually having 2x3.5TB NVMe disks and high iops capacity and 32c/64t EPYC CPU).

That project was never been in AWS/"cloud" though, so savings are made in upfront.

I have not done any traffic calculations, though - I actually forgot that AWS can charge you for that as well.

[fillest]

Got an order of magnitude saving, mainly due to absurd AWS network traffic costs.