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Updated March 2026 · Independent Analysis

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Hetzner starts at $4.35/mo; Amazon Web Services (AWS) is free. Hetzner is rated higher at 4.7/5 vs Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s 4.5/5.

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Hetzner

European cloud hosting with exceptionally competitive pricing

4.7/5Founded 1997500K+ customers users
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The world's most comprehensive cloud platform with 200+ services

4.5/5Founded 20061M+ active customers users
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⚡ Quick Stats

Avg Rating
🏆 Hetzner wins
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Starting Price
🏆 Amazon Web Services (AWS) wins
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Features
🏆 Hetzner wins
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Free Plan
🏆 Amazon Web Services (AWS) wins

📊 Ratings Breakdown

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Hetzner

4.7/5 avg
G2 Score4.6/5
Capterra Score4.7/5
Overall Avg4.65/5
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

4.5/5 avg
G2 Score4.5/5
Capterra Score4.6/5
Overall Avg4.55/5

⚡ Quick Verdict

Independent analysis based on features, pricing, and user ratings

Choose Hetzner if you need:
  • Cloud Servers
  • Dedicated Servers
  • Block Storage
  • Object Storage
  • Load Balancers
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Choose Amazon Web Services (AWS) if you need:
  • EC2 Compute
  • S3 Storage
  • Lambda Serverless
  • RDS Databases
  • CloudFront CDN
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🔧 Feature Comparison

Hetzner uniquely offers Cloud Servers, Dedicated Servers, Block Storage. Amazon Web Services (AWS) uniquely offers EC2 Compute, S3 Storage, Lambda Serverless. Both share 0 features.

Feature
Hetzner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud Servers
Dedicated Servers
Block Storage
Object Storage
Load Balancers
Firewalls
Floating IPs
Private Networks
Snapshots
Backups
API
CLI
Terraform Provider
DNS Management
Data Centers in EU/US
EC2 Compute
S3 Storage
Lambda Serverless
RDS Databases
CloudFront CDN
ECS/EKS Containers
API Gateway
IAM Security
CloudWatch Monitoring
Route 53 DNS
SageMaker AI/ML
VPC Networking
Elastic Beanstalk
Lightsail
200+ Services
Total Features
15
15

💰 Pricing Comparison

Hetzner starts at $4.35/mo; Amazon Web Services (AWS) is free.

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Hetzner Plans

Paid plans only

CX22Best Value
$4.35/mo
  • 2 vCPU
  • 4GB RAM
  • 40GB SSD
CX32
$7.69/mo
  • 4 vCPU
  • 8GB RAM
  • 80GB SSD
CX42
$14.49/mo
  • 8 vCPU
  • 16GB RAM
  • 160GB SSD
Dedicated
$44/mo
  • Bare metal servers
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Plans

Free tier available

Free Tier
Free
  • 750hrs EC2/mo
  • 5GB S3
  • 25GB DynamoDB
Pay-as-you-go
Custom
  • EC2 from $0.0116/hr
  • S3 $0.023/GB
  • Lambda 1M free requests
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