Azure is the absolute worst, consider moving to AWS once you run out of credits (and maybe stop at GCloud before that to pull the same trick). Keep everything

Azure is the absolute worst, consider moving to AWS once you run out of credits (and maybe stop at GCloud before that to pull the same trick). Keep everything in docker + some cloud agnostic orchestration layer so it's easy to migrate to other clouds (or even to dedicated). I have experience with all of the clouds and I'm never going to use one. They are ridiculously overpriced and they get way more expensive the bigger you are. What other arguments do you need? I've seen mediocre startups doing the same and ending up with a 1M/y AWS Contract while pulling very little money - and eventually scrambling to move everything to physical servers. If you're going to be a unicorn, it may be worth to pay lots of money to the cloud because it will be a tiny fraction or your future profits - if you're unlikely to hit that, just roll something up on Hetzner. It's not that hard, and literally what people did for a decade before AWS. I've never been purely a devops guy but I've been rolling my own servers for 15+ years; I understand not wanting to deal with hardware failures (they happen and you'll waste lot of time) but a dedicated / VPS is as hard as running things on AWS EC2. That said, it's a lost battle. Most technical leaders are dead on the cloud and some even think they're saving money. It's the same with scrum, microservices, performance not mattering or other nowadays myths.