Still, this depends a lot on what features you are actually using. If your use case is a few dedicated servers and maybe a https load balancer, you can have that at Hetzner for half the money. Paying the premium for any of the large clouds only makes sense if you really plan on using their advantages, i.e. well-integrated managed services like RDS and SQS or quick scaling.
AWS also has the advantage of reassuring customers/insurances/investors. “Did you encrypt at rest? Is your db port accessible from the internet? Are you backups autodeleted?” “Yes, we’ve implemented this check and this check, and concerning encryption at rest, we ticked that box in AWS RDS.”
