> Intelligent, robust design at one provider (like AWS) is way more resilient, and intra-zone transfer is cheaper than going out to the cloud ($0.02/GB vs $0.08/GB).
If traffic cost is relevant (which it is for a lot of use cases), Hetzner's price of $1.20/TB ($0.0012 / GB) for internet traffic [1] is an order of magnitude less than what AWS charges between AWS locations in the same metro. If you host only at providers with reasonable bandwidth charges, most likely all of your bandwidth will be billed at less than what AWS charges for inter-zone traffic. That's obscene. As far as I can tell, clouds are balancing their budgets on the back of traffic charges, but nothing else feels under cost either.
> For example, during the AWS outage, my company was in us-east-1, and we never had any issues, because we didn't depend on calling AWS APIs to continue operating. Things already running continue to run.
This doesn't always work out. During the GCP outage, my service was running fine, but other similar services were having trouble, so we attracted more usage, which we would have scaled up for, except that the GCP outage prevented that. Cloud makes it very expensive to run scaled beyond current needs and promises that scale out will be available to do just in time...
If traffic cost is relevant (which it is for a lot of use cases), Hetzner's price of $1.20/TB ($0.0012 / GB) for internet traffic [1] is an order of magnitude less than what AWS charges between AWS locations in the same metro. If you host only at providers with reasonable bandwidth charges, most likely all of your bandwidth will be billed at less than what AWS charges for inter-zone traffic. That's obscene. As far as I can tell, clouds are balancing their budgets on the back of traffic charges, but nothing else feels under cost either.
> For example, during the AWS outage, my company was in us-east-1, and we never had any issues, because we didn't depend on calling AWS APIs to continue operating. Things already running continue to run.
This doesn't always work out. During the GCP outage, my service was running fine, but other similar services were having trouble, so we attracted more usage, which we would have scaled up for, except that the GCP outage prevented that. Cloud makes it very expensive to run scaled beyond current needs and promises that scale out will be available to do just in time...
[1] https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/general/traffic/