AWS vs OVHcloud

• OVHcloud offers significantly higher memory density, scaling up to 30 GB of RAM, whereas AWS RDS mid-tier instances cap out at 8 GB for a comparable price point.
• Storage overages are cheaper on OVHcloud at $0.10/GB compared to the $0.12/GB charged by AWS RDS.
• Egress costs reveal a massive delta: AWS RDS charges $0.09/GB, while OVHcloud maintains a much leaner $0.01/GB rate, which benefits data-heavy analytical applications.
• AWS RDS base pricing starts at $11.68/mo for entry-level workloads, while OVHcloud enters the market at $26.28/mo with a higher baseline hardware floor.

Choosing between these two providers comes down to how much memory and network throughput your database engine requires. AWS RDS is built on top of mature, highly abstracted infrastructure that excels in environments where you need to integrate with the broader AWS ecosystem, such as Lambda functions or VPC peering. However, you pay a premium for that integration. The 8 GB RAM ceiling on the lower-cost AWS tiers forces teams into expensive instance upgrades much sooner than on OVHcloud, which provides up to 30 GB of RAM for roughly the same monthly spend as a high-end AWS RDS instance.

OVHcloud’s hardware, often leveraging AMD EPYC processors, performs well for workloads that need to avoid the egress tax common in public clouds. While AWS RDS offers a lower barrier to entry for small development instances, the long-term cost of moving large datasets out of the database or scaling memory for complex MySQL or PostgreSQL queries makes OVHcloud a more efficient choice for sustained, high-traffic database operations. If your application architecture relies on heavy read operations or transferring large result sets, the $0.01/GB egress rate at OVHcloud will save significant budget compared to the standard AWS rates.