I can see both sides. If you're a startup that needs to be able to scale quickly if product market fit is achieved, the cloud really saves your bacon. Or is your ten person team really going to figure out how to get Postgres to reliably run with billions of records, with encrypted backups, etc?
It's basically a form of permanent debt. Faster product market fit, higher long term infrastructure costs until you have enough breathing room to start pulling it into your own datacenter. At that point you have some negotiating leverage with the cloud provider.
On the other hand, if you're not looking for explosive growth man oh man is DigitalOcean or anyone of a number good providers of good old VPSes / Cloud-lite.
It's basically a form of permanent debt. Faster product market fit, higher long term infrastructure costs until you have enough breathing room to start pulling it into your own datacenter. At that point you have some negotiating leverage with the cloud provider.
On the other hand, if you're not looking for explosive growth man oh man is DigitalOcean or anyone of a number good providers of good old VPSes / Cloud-lite.