My advise as a CTO is to avoid AWS or GCS in all stages of a healthy company. The danger of getting locked-in. The aggressive sales team bugging you every week.

My advise as a CTO is to avoid AWS or GCS in all stages of a healthy company. The danger of getting locked-in. The aggressive sales team bugging you every week. The impossible to comprehend pricing model. Hire yourself a decent set of says engineers and go for VMs in an early stage of the company. A switch to bare metal could be taken in a later stage. No always needed.