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Apples and Oranges. Hetzner doesn't even have multiple AZ's by AWS's definition - all Hetzners DCs eg Falkenstein 1-14 would be the same AZ zone. AWS network i
by everfrustrated 2y ago
Apples and Oranges. Hetzner doesn't even have multiple AZ's by AWS's definition - all Hetzners DCs eg Falkenstein 1-14 would be the same AZ zone.
AWS network is designed with a lot more internal capacity and reliability than Hetzner which costs a lot more - multiple uplinks to independent switches, etc.
AWS is also buying current gen network gear which is much more pricey - Hetzner is mostly doing 1 Gig ports or 10 gig at a push which means they can get away with >10 year old switches (if you think they buy new switches I have a bridge you might be interested in buying).
This costs at least an order of magnitude more.
- iscoelho 2y agoI agree with this post that Hetzner is a bad example. They are focused on a budget deployment. I do not agree that a state-of-the-art high capacity deployment is as expensive as you think it is. If an organization pays MSRP on everything, has awful procurement with nonexistent negotiation, and multiple project failures, sure, maybe. In the real world though, we're not all working for the federal government (-:
- dantillberg 2y agoWhile your caveats are all noteworthy, I'll add that Hetzner also offers unlimited/free bandwidth between their datacenters in Germany and Finland. That's sort of like AWS offering free data transfer between us-east-1 and us-east-2.