3x performance for 1/4 of the price by migrating from AWS to Hetzner
Migrating to Hetzner02/10/2025We saved 76% on our cloud bills while tripling our capacity by migrating to Hetzner from AWS and DigitalOcean.BackgroundAll the software we build at DigitalSociety runs in the cloud. Prior to the migration we ran workloads on two platforms:We use AWS for some of our core hosting needs (DNS via Route53 and sending emails via SES).We also chose AWS to host tap, our first SaaS product, using a variety of AWS services (ECS for container orchestration, RDS for relational databases, ALB for ingress, and a long tail of peripheral services, as is the AWS way).We chose AWS for familiarity since we have worked with it for nearly 15 years. We also prize their reliability, particularly when it comes to API stability. We automate as much of our infrastructure management…
