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They claim to be 1/3 the price of AWS, so I calculated for fun and it's 8x more expensive than my server auction machine I just got from Hetzner. Which itself is 6x cheaper than on-demand pricing at AWS, but only 3x cheaper than spot. Of course I get free egress. And my RAID1 perf can't be matched by the baseline EBS storage I've used in the comparison.

In any case, they don't seem to really have an edge on AWS unless you have huge egress. What did I miss?

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That's not a like-for-like comparison. You need to compare CC to the c8a range of AWS, on-demand only. That's where the 1/3 comes from. For example:

c8a.medium (1vCPU/2GiB RAM/no SSD) on-demand on AWS: 5.39 cents per hour plus egress Carolina Cloud equivalent: 2 cents per hour with zero egress

If you don't have egress then the price is closer to 40% that of AWS. If you do have egress, the price could be far, far below 1/3.

Hetzner server auction is great for many use-cases, but it's not a fair comparison with EPYC Turins.

(1) https://cloudprice.net/aws/ec2?filter=c8a

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