It depends on how you define small business. You can have a SaaS app with a lot of users and revenue, and a small team and a couple servers and maybe not benefi

It depends on how you define small business. You can have a SaaS app with a lot of users and revenue, and a small team and a couple servers and maybe not benefit from k8s. Or you can have a startup with a small team and small number of users, but the legal and market requirements may dictate things like availability requirements for which k8s can add a lot of value that would normally cost you hiring multiple ops folks and writing a lot of boilerplate code. For the latter kind of business, k8s is probably a good investment that is worth the added costs of running on a more expensive cloud provider. You’ll probably have to stick to them for security/compliance reasons anyway. For the former type of company... k8s is probably only worth chasing if you are already seeing scale, or if you see becoming more like the latter. In that case, I would first test my app on something like GKE to see what it means from that perspective. Then I would look at deploying on my preferred hosting provider. If you can’t get your app to run well/how you like on GKE, it’s probably not worth planning a cluster deployment just to find out the same.