At over $986/m, it's a damn sight more expensive than a Hetzner box.

Granted, Hetzner's €89 servers only have 24GB of RAM, not 96, but you can basically have 7 of them and some change left for the same price. This adds up to 168GB total RAM, with a total of 28 cores. ( http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr... )

Which one is best will no doubt depend on what you want to do with it, and certainly there are some applications where only a single, 96GB machine will do, but those are rare.