> extremely suspicious timing. I've been wondering for well over a decade why Hetzner didn't get its ass in gear and start offering AWS-like services. Instead

> extremely suspicious timing. I've been wondering for well over a decade why Hetzner didn't get its ass in gear and start offering AWS-like services. Instead all they've offered for years is remote control of VMs. Even now, this new S3 offering is very little, very late -- 18 years after Amazon first offered it and took off like a rocket. The only odd thing about the timing here is what was keeping them.