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Amazon AWS vs Microsoft Azure vs Google Cloud vs Hetzner Cloud
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- Candidate 1
Amazon AWS
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Free plan credits
- $100 at sign-up, up to $200 total
- Free plan length
- 6 months or until credits run out
- Paid plan billing
- Pay-as-you-go after credits
- Geographic regions
- 39
- Availability Zones
- 124
- Planned regions
- 2 (Saudi Arabia, Chile)
- Planned AZs
- 7
- Min AZs per region
- 3
- Always-free services
- 30+ with monthly limits
- Region and Availability Zone counts come from AWS's own infrastructure site and change as new regions open.
- Free plan terms come from an AWS Builder community article, not from aws.amazon.com, which could not be read; check…
- Per-service prices vary by region and usage and are not listed on this card.
Sources: Global Infrastructure Regions & AZs (infrastructure.aws) (official) · The $0 AWS account in 2026: Free plan, credits, guardrails (AWS Builder)
Checked 2026-11-03
- Candidate 2
Microsoft Azure
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Microsoft Azure
- Free account credit
- $200 credit, usable within 30 days
- Always-free services
- 65+ services with monthly free amounts
- 12-month free services
- 20+ popular services, new customers only
- Student credit
- $100 credit, no credit card required
- Paid model
- Pay as you go, no upfront commitment
- Commitment discounts
- Azure reservations; Azure savings plan for compute (up to 65%)
- Cost estimate tool
- Azure pricing calculator
- Products and services
- 200+ products
- AI models
- Azure OpenAI and other models in Microsoft Foundry
- Free services are free up to set monthly amounts; the 12-month free services are for new customers only.
- Free-account users must move to pay as you go within 30 days or after using the credit to keep receiving free services.
- Microsoft states Azure has more datacenter regions than any other cloud provider.
Sources: Azure home (en-us) (official) · Azure pricing (official) · Free Azure services (official) · Create your Azure free account or pay as you go (official) · Foundry Models sold by Azure (Microsoft Learn) (official)
Checked 2026-11-03
- Candidate 3
Google Cloud
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Google Cloud
- Free trial credit
- $300 for new customers, valid 90 days
- Always-free products
- 20+ products, monthly usage limits
- Billing model
- Pay-as-you-go, no upfront or termination fees
- Paid price
- Varies by product and usage; see price list
- Product count
- 100+ products (pricing page)
- AI models
- 200+ foundation models on Gemini platform
- Compute services
- Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run
- Cost estimate tool
- Pricing calculator
- Google's homepage cites 150+ products, while the pricing page cites 100+ products.
- No fixed monthly plan tiers are listed; paid usage is billed by product and consumption.
- Free trial billing starts only if the account is manually upgraded to a paid account.
Sources: Google Cloud homepage (official) · Google Cloud Pricing Overview (official) · Google Cloud Free Trial FAQs (official)
Checked 2026-11-03
- Candidate 4
Hetzner Cloud
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Hetzner Cloud
- Cost-Optimized from
- € 5.99 per month, excl. VAT
- Regular Performance from
- € 6.49 per month, excl. VAT
- General Purpose from
- € 43.49 per month, excl. VAT
- Included traffic (EU)
- 20 TB per month
- Billing
- Hourly; deleting mid-month bills the hourly rate
- Server locations
- Germany, Finland, Singapore, USA
- Firewalls
- Stateful, no extra cost
- API and tools
- REST API, CLI tool, Terraform, Ansible
- Uptime SLA
- 99.9% guaranteed uptime
- Support
- 24/7 support by email
- Shared Resources plans (Cost-Optimized, Regular Performance) are listed on the official overview, which also marks the…
- Every cloud server comes with free one-click apps such as Docker, WordPress and Nextcloud.
- Included traffic differs by location: the official Regular Performance page lists at least 1 TB for US locations and…
Sources: Hetzner Cloud overview (official) (official) · Hetzner Cost-Optimized plan (official) (official) · Hetzner Regular Performance plan (official) (official) · Hetzner European Cloud page (official) (official)
Checked 2026-11-03
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