If you were to advise someone starting to build a SaaS product from an idea, what cloud providers would you recommend knowing more about beyond the bigger three?
Ask HN: Beyond AWS/Azure/GCP, what cloud providers should I know more about?
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Re: Ask HN: Beyond AWS/Azure/GCP, what cloud providers should I know more about?
#2Actually, I'd start with the assumption that the application may not (or should not) know anything about the underlying cloud infrastructure.
Re: Ask HN: Beyond AWS/Azure/GCP, what cloud providers should I know more about?
#3Unless you consider it essential for your product to scale by few orders of magnitude on a dime, it would be sensible to add "non-cloud" hosting into consideration - Hetzner, OVH, Scaleway, ...
Those are considerably cheaper, suffer less from unpredictable performance, a.k.a. "loud neighbour" problem, and are less likely to make you lock into some API/feature that would become a huge headache if you ever decide to move.
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#4Supabase.
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#6DigitalOcean and https://fly.io/
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#7Definitely Hetzner; cheap bare metal with ease of use approaching Cloud™, plus actual cloud VMs.
Re: Ask HN: Beyond AWS/Azure/GCP, what cloud providers should I know more about?
#8None, it is not important at the early stage you are at, if ever, but it depends on the SaaS model you follow.
Why do you think it's important to know more than the one you run on?
Re: Ask HN: Beyond AWS/Azure/GCP, what cloud providers should I know more about?
#9Alibaba Cloud if company you work for thinks about providing a service for China customers
Re: Ask HN: Beyond AWS/Azure/GCP, what cloud providers should I know more about?
#10Twilio, Stripe, Notion