AWS RDS vs OVHcloud

• AWS RDS remains constrained at 1 GB to 8 GB of RAM, while OVHcloud scales from 2 GB up to 1920 GB, positioning OVHcloud to handle massive in-memory datasets that would choke RDS.
• The egress gap is substantial; AWS RDS provides 100 GB of included bandwidth, whereas OVHcloud offers 1000 GB, effectively neutralizing bandwidth concerns for most mid-sized applications.
• Overages for disk storage are slightly more expensive on AWS RDS at $0.12/GB compared to OVHcloud’s $0.10/GB.
• Egress overages on AWS RDS are priced at $0.09/GB, which is significantly steeper than the $0.01/GB penalty found on OVHcloud infrastructure.

AWS RDS operates on a premium model where you pay for the convenience of automated backups, point-in-time recovery, and the abstraction of underlying hardware. While the $11.68/mo starting price is accessible for small development environments, the cost floor rises quickly as RAM requirements increase. You are essentially paying for the ecosystem integration with other AWS services like IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch. The hardware is reliable, typically running on standard Intel Xeon or Graviton processors, but it lacks the raw memory density found in OVHcloud's high-tier offerings.

OVHcloud provides a much wider spectrum of hardware, reaching up to $36178.80/mo for extreme configurations. This is designed for teams managing their own database clusters on bare metal or high-performance VMs rather than relying on a managed platform interface. If your primary goal is minimizing the cost per gigabyte of egress and maximizing the available RAM for large-scale caching or heavy write operations, OVHcloud provides a clear financial advantage. AWS RDS works best when your team needs to offload administrative maintenance to a managed service, while OVHcloud is suited for high-throughput environments where you have the engineering talent to handle the database tuning, backups, and failover logic yourself.