And some of those rules already have mandatory entries, so you'll likely only have around 7-8 actually usable.
"Just use the firewall in your OS" is a workaround, but doesn't fully cover the same scenario's. That's why AWS has Security Groups after all.
This limitation means we have to use smaller sized servers (64/128GB ram), rather than bigger ones which would otherwise be more cost effective.
It's a real pita for us, and Hetzner have shown no interest in ever addressing the problem. :(
That being said, it's all still a lot cheaper than AWS, as Hetzner doesn't charge for bandwidth with their dedicated servers. :)
- the Big Three have data centers all over the world. No other provider can match that. (Obviously: if 99% of your customers come from the EU, Hetzner, OVH and friends will be cheaper)
- there is a ton of prior experience in managing and provisioning infrastructure on the Big Three. You got Terraform providers covering every oh so tiny resource they have, and for literally every problem you got dozens upon dozens of stackoverflow/serverfault posts.
- the Big Three have allll sorts of managed services. No matter if you need cheap blob hosting, virtual servers, bare metal servers without paying setup fees, AI training servers, VPNs, global load balancing/caching, data storage/archival, databases, "serverless" hosting, email, SMS, IoT communication, Active Directory and other identity/authentication/authorization solutions, business data analytics, whatever - it's all a one-stop-shop. No dozens of vendors, bills, payment schedules, GDPR processing agreements, budget issues - one vendor, one bureaucracy, everything you need.
It's really bad that the EU never woke up to the rise of the Big Three and say, for example, financed the development of OpenStack to the tune that it could be used by domestic providers, because now the Big Three have all but eliminated the smaller competition.
We're not as cheap as Hetzner or OVH, but we're just as global as public cloud and will match or beat the latency.