Comment by indigo945
9 days ago
Yes, but Hetzner is not "some low-end provider". They have proper, high-quality datacenters with all the redundancy you want, excellent connectivity, great service, and much better privacy controls than any American company would be legally able to provide. Hetzner also offers instant scalability and has Terraform and Ansible support for infrastructure automation.
We have some VMs on Azure and some on Hetzner, and the latter have much better performance (especially since they give you basically infinite IOPS, which matters a lot for your database) and connectivity (especially lower latency).
The large hyperscalers were ever only worth it if you need/want all the additional PaaS infrastructure they provide, like Lambda, SQS and so on.
> much better privacy controls than any American company would be legally able to provide
Yeah, sure. They even MITM your TLS for extra privacy I suppose.
https://notes.valdikss.org.ru/jabber.ru-mitm/
Every company complies with national security letters with gag orders, which it's strongly implied this was.
Centralizing permissions via IAM is a seriously overlooked benefit.