Have you looked into Appengine Flex. Appengine flex is a PaaS like heroku, and will scale up any docker container. Its a great solution for your early days, and

Have you looked into Appengine Flex. Appengine flex is a PaaS like heroku, and will scale up any docker container. Its a great solution for your early days, and when you do need to move to a 1000+ node cluster its easy to switch from Appengine Flex to kubernetes. You also might get a lot of free startup credits https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/ https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/ (Disclaimer, I work for Google). [1] https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/ https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/