Host a SaaS product in the EU without paying a residency premium
Multi-tenant applications need predictable unit economics: a cost per tenant you can put in a pricing model and defend a year later. Metered egress and per-region price differences break that.
Run application and database tiers on Cloud Compute inside a VPC, put a load balancer in front with TLS terminated at the edge, and keep state on block storage volumes that can be grown while attached. Because bandwidth is unmetered and every region bills at the same rate, adding an EU or US region for a customer segment changes the architecture, not the cost model.
- A cost per tenant that does not move when traffic does.
- EU-only deployment for customers who ask where their data sits.
- Room to scale vertically first, then horizontally, without re-platforming.