Product overview — Cloud Compute
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Hetzner Cloud
Cost-effective cloud VMs with strong price/performance, often chosen for Europe-centric deployments and straightforward infrastructure.
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Who is this best for?
This is the fastest way to decide whether Hetzner Cloud is in the right neighborhood.
Best for
- Cost-sensitive workloads in Europe where Hetzner's price-to-performance ratio is 5-10x better than AWS EC2 or GCE for equivalent CPU and RAM — particularly for CPU-bound applications with predictable resource needs.
- Teams that want dedicated servers at cloud provider prices — Hetzner's dedicated (root) servers start under €40/mo for hardware that would cost $500+/mo on AWS.
- European businesses with GDPR data residency requirements who prefer EU-headquartered infrastructure providers and want to keep data within German or Finnish data centers.
Who should avoid
- You need broad global regions and enterprise managed services
- You need hyperscaler-level governance tooling
- Regional footprint may be narrower than hyperscalers
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