I’ve been maintaining the price comparison at git.io/vps for a while now, and the answer is: No, you’re missing nothing. Yes, DO and especially AWS and GCP are

I’ve been maintaining the price comparison at git.io/vps for a while now, and the answer is: No, you’re missing nothing. Yes, DO and especially AWS and GCP are about an order of magnitude more expensive than Hetzner, OVH, and similar providers. Much more for traffic. It’s always been like this, the cloud providers simply have much larger profit margins.