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Used it for many years.

Used it for many years. Reliable and trustworthy. Awful customer service and user experience. Wish there was more alternatives. Google isn't much better.

11–50 employees · Oct 2026 · From HissingKitty

It's ok.

It's ok. I want to give it 1-star, but it's AWS, it doesn't exactly "go down" often. But the UX, the billing, the permissions, everything about AWS is insanely frustrating. Their identity management is terrible, the navigation, nested permissions, it takes 30 minutes just to change a permission for a hosting environment. What a joke.

1–10 employees · Oct 2026 · From HissingKitty

"We used to pay AWS close to $8,000 a month. Today, our entire company runs on 3 rented bare metal servers at Hetzner. That's 4 SaaS products with more than 50,000 users (apps, databases, background jobs and monitoring included). The bill is around $300 a month."

Was paying $96,000 / year · saves $92,400 a year

Simon Høiberg · Oct 27, 2026 · From X

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Own plain servers, databases and backups on flat-priced hardware; keep renting global regions and managed services you really use.

Should I switch from AWS or build my own Cloud Hosting?

Switch if you want something running this week and your process is standard. Build if your process is your edge, you want to own your data, or per-seat pricing keeps rising. AWS: Own plain servers, databases and backups on flat-priced hardware; keep renting global regions and managed services you really use. No reports yet.

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