Carolina Cloud
Cloud compute platform in Hosting & cloud
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.
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.
21 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 11
- approval share
- 48%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
No egress fees lowers total cost
“If you don't have egress then the price is closer to 40% that of AWS.”
Comment from 30 Jul 2026 in “Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits” “We have no egress fees but you're right about Hetzner.”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads” Pricing and lineup look good
“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”
Comment from 30 Jul 2026 in “Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits” “the pricing isn't too bad and the lineup looks good”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Site slows or breaks browsers
“rn it broke my browser and it feels like you don't have the right focus”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads” “my Chrome becomes extremely laggy, and afterwards my entire Mac OS becomes very slow”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads” “It is also terrible to scroll on iOS with power saver turned on.”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads” - Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads”
Unclear edge over AWS
“How will you provide high quality service and reliability while competing on price with the scale and financial might of AWS?”
Comment from 15 Dec 2025 in “Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads” “they don't seem to really have an edge on AWS unless you have huge egress”
Comment from 30 Jul 2026 in “Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits” Outages and login failures reported
“The console page is showing third party login failure on my phone”
Comment from 20 Dec 2025 in “Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads” “the entire platform went offline within 20 minutes”
Comment from 22 Dec 2025 in “Carolina Cloud – One third the cost of AWS for data science workloads”
What people said
15 of the 23 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“If you don't have egress then the price is closer to 40% that of AWS.”
“they don't seem to really have an edge on AWS unless you have huge egress”
“I like how it democratizes a mechanism that enterprises have”
“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”
“the entire platform went offline within 20 minutes”
“We have no egress fees but you're right about Hetzner.”
“Same on my low end android phone”
“The console page is showing third party login failure on my phone”
“These companies are the worst kind of scam.”
“It is also terrible to scroll on iOS with power saver turned on.”
“the pricing isn't too bad and the lineup looks good”
“It made the page basically unusable for me.”
“rn it broke my browser and it feels like you don't have the right focus”
“my Chrome becomes extremely laggy, and afterwards my entire Mac OS becomes very slow”
“How will you provide high quality service and reliability while competing on price with the scale and financial might of AWS?”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.