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AWS / GCP (hyperscaler) vs. Hetzner / OVH (European cloud)

AWS / GCP vs Hetzner / OVH · 2026 SaaS infra call

Hyperscalers offer every primitive. European clouds offer 1/3 the price for 80% of the use cases. For a bootstrapped or EU-native SaaS, the math matters.

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AWS / GCP (hyperscaler)

Pick this when…

  • · You need niche managed services (SageMaker, BigQuery, Athena)
  • · Multi-region active-active with hyperscaler tooling
  • · Customer audit (SOC 2) demands hyperscaler vendor

Hetzner / OVH (European cloud)

Pick that when…

  • · Bootstrapped SaaS where margin matters
  • · EU-native and data-residency is a feature
  • · Workload fits on bare-metal + container orchestrator
  • · Egress-heavy workload (Hetzner free 20 TB/mo on some plans)

FACTORS TO WEIGH

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Factors to weighAWS / GCP (hyperscaler)Hetzner / OVH (European cloud)
Core compute (8vCPU, 32GB)~$250/mo~$40-60/mo
Managed DB (Postgres 100GB)~$200/mo~$30/mo self-managed
Egress 1TB/mo~$90Included or ~$10
Managed ML inferenceSageMaker / Vertex AIDIY
Multi-region (EU + US)NativeManual + CDN
Data residencyRegional but US-ownedEU-owned, EU-hosted
We recommendEnterprise / ML-heavyBootstrapped / EU-native

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