> There also is Hetzner and their dedicated servers. You pay for a server with a 1Gb/s connection and all egress is free.

There's also OVH and they have things like 1 Gbit/s guaranteed, up to 5 Gbit/s (not guaranteed) EPYC 7313 servers with 25,50 or 100 Gbit/s guaranteed private (from OVH servers to OVH servers) for... 200 EUR / month.

Re-using the example from TFA, you could max the bandwith of such a server 24/7, be "downgraded" from 5 Gbit/s to 1 Gbit/s guaranteed and yet it'd cost you... 200 EUR/month.

Versus hundreds of thousands of egress bill in the cloud.

200 EUR / month vs hundred of thousands.

But yay. Go cloud!