Fee Transparency Report
AWS (Amazon Web Services) Fees Exposed — 2026
Complete breakdown of every fee AWS (Amazon Web Services) charges, including the hidden ones they don't advertise. Total estimated annual cost: $9,500+. Switch to Hetzner Cloud + Cloudflare R2 and save $7,500+/year.
Potential Savings
$7,500+/year
by switching from AWS (Amazon Web Services) ($9,500+/yr) to Hetzner Cloud + Cloudflare R2 ($2,000/year/yr)
Advertised Fees
EC2 Instance (m6i.xlarge, on-demand)
monthly
$138.24
S3 Storage (1TB Standard)
monthly
$23.00
RDS (db.m6g.xlarge, Multi-AZ)
monthly
$420.00
Elastic Load Balancer (ALB)
monthly
$22.00
Hidden Fees
Fees not prominently disclosed at signup
Data Transfer Out (1TB)
monthly
$90.00
NAT Gateway Processing (1TB)
monthly
$45.00
CloudWatch Logs Ingestion (50GB)
monthly
$25.00
Elastic IP (idle)
monthly
$3.60
Business Support Plan
monthly
$100+ or 10% of spend
Cross-AZ Data Transfer
per GB
$0.01/GB
AWS (Amazon Web Services) vs Hetzner Cloud + Cloudflare R2 — Cost Comparison
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
$9,500+
per year
Hetzner Cloud + Cloudflare R2
$2,000/year
per year
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