Disclaimer: I work for DigitalOcean. We at DigitalOcean tend to see a lot of SaaS builders on our cloud. We obviously are smaller as compared to the big 3, but

Disclaimer: I work for DigitalOcean. We at DigitalOcean tend to see a lot of SaaS builders on our cloud. We obviously are smaller as compared to the big 3, but in our experience most people starting out with an idea don't really need all the bells and whistles. Price-competitive, performant, and easily-automatable IaaS (compute/network/storage), and some managed services on top of it, are sufficient for a vast majority of builders. I think about this thread all the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22310879 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22310879 Here is some marketing material with more information: - https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/how-to-scale-your-saas-product-without-breaking-the-bank https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/how-to-scale-your-saas-pro... - https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/forrester-total-economic-impact-study https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/forrester-total-economic-i...