Infrastructure as a Service
Combine filters →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.
10 providers are infrastructure as a service, listed alphabetically. Across 42 countries, commonest entry price under $5 a month.
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- Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud provides infrastructure, platform and serverless services spanning 32 regions with support for Linux, Windows, containers and multiple runtimes.
- 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.
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- 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.
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- Ikoula
One of the oldest independent French hosts, trading since 1998, running two of its own certified data centres in France.
- Infomaniak
A Swiss hosting and cloud provider selling shared hosting, servers and public cloud infrastructure.
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- Leaseweb
A Dutch infrastructure provider selling bare metal, virtual servers and infrastructure as a service.
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- 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.