# Carolina Cloud

10 Hacker News commenters recommended Carolina Cloud and 11 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Cloud computing sold as prepaid credits at prices people call well below AWS, mainly for workloads without heavy egress. Critics question whether it can match AWS on reliability and say it has little edge for heavy egress users.

## Why people recommend it

- No egress fees lowers total cost (2 comments): "If you don't have egress then the price is closer to 40% that of AWS." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111857)) "We have no egress fees but you're right about Hetzner." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46335357))
- Pricing and lineup look good (2 comments): "I think this is pretty great, though I’m sure hyperscalers will find a way to make sure such a scheme becomes as shitty for customers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108801)) "the pricing isn't too bad and the lineup looks good" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333736))

## What people warn about

- Site slows or breaks browsers (4 comments): "rn it broke my browser and it feels like you don't have the right focus" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333453)) "my Chrome becomes extremely laggy, and afterwards my entire Mac OS becomes very slow" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333415)) "It is also terrible to scroll on iOS with power saver turned on." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333797))
- Unclear edge over AWS (2 comments): "How will you provide high quality service and reliability while competing on price with the scale and financial might of AWS?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46278094)) "they don't seem to really have an edge on AWS unless you have huge egress" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111648))
- Outages and login failures reported (2 comments): "The console page is showing third party login failure on my phone" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334097)) "the entire platform went offline within 20 minutes" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46360642))

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Carolina Cloud", https://hackerapproved.com/p/carolina-cloud/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).