Not in my experience. You can start small and ramp up. I prefer to experiment using my own servers (mostly old minitowers and some ex data centre stuff). But f

Not in my experience. You can start small and ramp up. I prefer to experiment using my own servers (mostly old minitowers and some ex data centre stuff). But for the MVP, replicate the working configuration to either AWS/GAE, etc. Perhaps you could explain why you ask?