Infrastructure as a Service

Building blocks, not buildings.

Infrastructure as a Service providers are the big players in B2B. You get a usage-metered catalogue of hundreds of separately billed services, like virtual machines, block and object storage, networks, load balancers. Records here answer “you” to who manages the operating system, and the bill follows what is provisioned, which is why the price ceiling recorded for a hyperscaler is where a serious deployment lands.

24 providers are infrastructure as a service, listed alphabetically. Across 46 countries.

By regions

India, Japan and United States.

A

Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Group's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, containers, serverless functions and managed services.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud infrastructure provider, spanning 123 Availability Zones in 39 geographic Regions.
Aruba.it
An Italian provider that owns its data centers and sells registrar services, hosting, servers and a public cloud.
Azure
Microsoft's hyperscale cloud — hundreds of separately metered infrastructure services, with App Service as the managed application layer above them.

C

cloudscale.ch
Swiss infrastructure-as-a-service provider selling virtual servers, object storage and load balancers on server hardware it owns in Swiss data centers.
Crusoe
US AI infrastructure company renting GPU and CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and model inference from its own data centers.

G

Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform is one of the three hyperscalers, selling compute, storage, data and machine-learning services on the infrastructure behind Google's own products.

H

Huawei Cloud
Huawei's public cloud, selling virtual servers, managed Kubernetes, serverless functions and GPU instances.
Hyperstack
GPU cloud from London's NexGen Cloud, selling GPU virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters and a token-priced model API.

I

Ikoula
One of the oldest independent French hosts, trading since 1998, running two of its own certified data centers in France.
Infomaniak
A Swiss hosting and cloud provider selling shared hosting, servers and public cloud infrastructure.

J

Jarvislabs
Indian GPU cloud renting GPU virtual machines, framework containers, managed model endpoints and a token-priced model API, billed by the minute.

L

Lambda
US GPU cloud selling on-demand NVIDIA GPU instances, reserved multi-node clusters and private cloud capacity.
Leaseweb
A Dutch infrastructure provider selling bare metal, virtual servers and infrastructure as a service.
Liara
An Iranian cloud platform selling platform-as-a-service, virtual servers and managed databases, priced and billed in Iranian rial.

N

Nebius
Amsterdam-based AI cloud selling GPU and CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, serverless GPU containers and a model API.

S

Sakura Internet
A Japanese cloud and infrastructure provider selling shared hosting, virtual servers and dedicated machines.
Seeweb
Italian cloud provider founded in 1998, part of the DHH Group, offering cloud servers, VPS, and managed services.
Sesterce
French GPU cloud renting GPU virtual machines, bare-metal servers and inference endpoints by the hour from a prepaid balance.

T

Tencent Cloud
Tencent's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, VPS bundles, GPU instances and serverless functions.
TensorDock
US marketplace selling GPU virtual machines on servers supplied by independent hosts, now owned by Voltage Park.
Tigris
Globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage reached through a single endpoint, with no egress fees.

V

Verda
Finnish GPU cloud selling GPU virtual machines, multi-node clusters and serverless containers from data centers in Helsinki.

W

Walrus
Decentralized storage protocol from Mysten Labs and part of the Sui stack, with a site-hosting layer served through public portals such as wal.app.

Who is the best Infrastructure as a Service provider?

We don't know. A static portfolio and a busy shop need different things from a host, and so do a freelancer and an agency with forty client sites. Nobody pays to be listed here and the order is alphabetical. The guide covers what to compare.