Infraexa vs AWS bare metal
Bare-metal instances inside the AWS ecosystem. Unmatched breadth of services, with hourly pricing and metered egress.
Reference configuration
m7a.metal-48xl on demand, EU region
Derived from the public rate of about $13.33 per hour in eu-central-1 at 730 hours, checked October 2026; reserved pricing is lower and committed.
about €8,700 per month on demand in Frankfurt
Side by side.
What you get there, what you get here. Checked October 2026.
| AWS bare metal | Infraexa | |
|---|---|---|
| Comparable 48-core server | About €8,700 per month on demand for a 192-vCPU bare-metal instance in Frankfurt | Core 48 at €2,540 per month, everything below included |
| Setup fee and term | No setup fee; one- or three-year commitments for lower rates | No setup fee, three-month minimum, then 30 days notice |
| Who runs the OS and patches | You, or AWS Managed Services at additional cost | Infraexa: hardening, patching, kernel and firmware, agreed windows |
| Monitoring and dashboards | CloudWatch, billed per metric, log and dashboard | Included: metrics, logs, uptime, dashboards, alert routing, 13 months |
| Backups and restore tests | AWS Backup, billed per gigabyte and restore | Included: nightly to a second EU site, 30 days, quarterly restore test |
| Security tooling | GuardDuty, Inspector and WAF, each billed separately | Included: DDoS, managed firewall, intrusion detection, weekly scans, audit log |
| Incident response | Business or Enterprise Support plans, a percentage of spend | Engineer within 15 or 30 minutes, 24/7, named engineer, monthly review |
| AI operations | Amazon Q and Bedrock as separate billed services | Exa: questions, anomaly detection, incident timelines, approved changes |
| Network and egress | Egress metered from about €0.08 per GB | 10 Gbit, 20 TB outbound included, then €1 per TB |
| EU data residency | EU regions available; sub-processors are global | Germany and Finland only, backups in the EU, DPA and sub-processor list |
Our honest verdict.
AWS wins on breadth of services and elasticity. For a steady workload on a few large machines, the bill is several times Infraexa's before monitoring, backups and support are added.
When AWS bare metal is the better choice
- Workloads that scale up and down by the hour
- Deep use of proprietary AWS services
- Teams with AWS expertise and credits
When Infraexa is the better choice
- Steady workloads on a few large machines
- Egress-heavy applications
- A fixed monthly bill with operations included
Information about AWS bare metal is taken from public price lists and product pages in October 2026, excludes VAT, and may have changed. It is provided for orientation and is not an offer by that provider. Product names belong to their owners.
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