Most Indian SaaS teams default to AWS without doing the math. Here is what the bills actually look like at 50-employee scale.

At a 50-engineer Indian SaaS company spending around ₹35 lakh/month on cloud, switching providers can save 25-40% — but only if you understand where the costs actually concentrate. AWS dominates Indian engineering recall but its data egress fees are brutal: $0.10/GB out of Mumbai costs more than the compute itself for media-heavy workloads. Azure offers reserved-instance discounts up to 60% if you commit 3 years, and many Indian enterprises already have Microsoft licensing leverage. OCI is the dark horse — Oracle gives away 4 vCPU + 24GB free forever in Hyderabad, and their bare-metal pricing undercuts AWS by 30-50% for stable workloads. The move that pays off: a 90-day cost audit before any migration. Identify your top 5 services by spend, model 3-year TCO across providers, and pilot one workload before committing.