Originally published on moveinfra.eu .

Moving from AWS to Hetzner gives European companies much lower compute and network costs, predictable monthly billing, and strict German legal jurisdiction, while requiring engineering teams to self-manage services that AWS runs for them. Hetzner provides core infrastructure building blocks—including virtual servers, dedicated bare-metal machines, block volumes, S3-compatible object storage, private networks, firewalls, and load balancers—at a fraction of hyperscaler prices. However, Hetzner does not offer managed relational databases (like AWS RDS), managed Kubernetes (like Amazon EKS), managed caching (like ElastiCache), or serverless queues and functions.…