Hyperscalers, European clouds and bare-metal providers differ in price, regions, hardware and managed services.
Own data centers, long-lived hardware and bundled traffic keep Hetzner cheap. After two 2026 price rises it still costs about half of AWS for compute.
Hetzner Cloud sells servers with bundled traffic at about half the price of EC2. AWS sells a full platform with more regions, zones and managed services.
Yes, if you design for it: Hetzner's SLA is 99.9% per server with credit-only payouts and no availability zones, so high availability is your job.
Hetzner server creation fails for four reasons: the type is out of stock, the account hit its limit, the account needs verification, or the type is deprecated.
Egress fees are charges for data leaving a cloud. Hyperscalers bill per GB, about $890 for 10 TB; Hetzner and OVHcloud include that traffic in the server price.
OVHcloud, Scaleway, IONOS, STACKIT, UpCloud, Exoscale and T Cloud Public offer managed Kubernetes. Hetzner offers the servers but no managed control plane.
Hetzner is a lean server provider with six locations and bundled traffic. OVHcloud is broader: more regions, managed Kubernetes, databases and SecNumCloud.
A dedicated vCPU is a CPU thread reserved for one VM. A shared vCPU comes from a pool other tenants use too, so it costs less but can slow down.
Spot instances are spare cloud capacity sold at up to 90% off that the provider can reclaim. AWS warns 2 minutes ahead; Google Cloud and Azure about 30 seconds.
Create a managed Kubernetes cluster in minutes. Every new account gets €200 in credit, so you can explore the full platform with no charge until it's used or expires.