Brief, mostly facts
Three-person team moves infrastructure from AWS to Hetzner
Amaiko says AI agents now handle most ops work. It estimates Hetzner is about eight times cheaper on demand, despite a 30 percent price rise.
What the research found
Amaiko, a three-person team, says AI agents now handle most ops work and that it moved infrastructure from AWS to Hetzner, which it estimates is about eight times cheaper on demand, after a roughly 30 percent Hetzner price rise in April.
Claims and how well the evidence supports them
- Amaiko's three-person engineering team merged 708 pull requests in four weeks 99%
- Infrastructure costs about 1500 euros per month at list prices including AI subscriptions 91%
- Hetzner is roughly eight times cheaper than AWS Frankfurt on demand for the same cluster shape 93%
- Hetzner raised prices about 30 percent in April 2026, existing servers included 95%
Evidence
- amaiko.ai https://amaiko.ai/engineering/what-we-stopped-paying-for
- news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50057383
Actionability rated low.