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So you wouldn't use a Heroku or cloudfoundry etc? You'd go for IaaS. Why?

Because you can get so much free hosting credit, especially if you're in an accelerator in the Global Accelerator Network. I'm not sure the numbers published on their site are complete or tell the whole story. I've personally seen startups get 5 and 6 figures worth of AWS credit with up to 2 years to use.

Also, using AWS doesn't necessarily imply IaaS. You can use Elastic Beanstalk.

Or maybe even Kubernetes?

Oh sure! That also depend on project, skills, work load, system design, goals, SLA. And many project specific 'things'. Few more links attached. IAAS, bare metal means different price point.

[0] http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/ (Heroku self-hosted)

[1] http://rancher.com/ ('Point and click Docker cluster ')

[2] https://www.mindmeister.com/389671722/open-container-ecosyst...

[3] https://www.ansible.com/ (Server provision)

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