Platform as a Service providers in United Kingdom

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11 providers are platform as a service and operate in United Kingdom, listed alphabetically. They are Alibaba Cloud, Aptible, Clever Cloud, DigitalOcean, Fly.io, Heroku, Laravel Cloud, Ploi Cloud, Sevalla, SiteHost and Upsun. That is 11 of the 45 that operate in United Kingdom. PostgreSQL on 8 of them, against 13 of the 45.

A

Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Group's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, containers, serverless functions and managed services.
Aptible
A platform for deploying apps and managed databases on AWS infrastructure with HIPAA and SOC 2 controls enforced by default.

C

Clever Cloud
French platform-as-a-service that detects, builds and runs an application from a git push, with managed databases and storage sold as add-ons.

D

DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is a publicly listed cloud provider best known for Droplets, its VPS product, alongside managed databases, Kubernetes and an app platform.
One we like

F

Fly.io
Fly.io runs applications as Firecracker microVMs on hardware it operates itself, deployed from a Dockerfile through the flyctl CLI and billed by usage.

H

Heroku
Heroku is a polyglot PaaS — the original "git push to deploy" platform, now a business unit of Salesforce.

L

Laravel Cloud
Laravel Cloud is the official platform by Laravel Holdings — managed, scale-to-zero hosting for Laravel and Symfony applications, billed by subscription plus usage.

P

Ploi Cloud
Managed application platform from the team behind the Ploi server-management panel, running customer apps on rented UpCloud infrastructure.
One we like

S

Sevalla
Sevalla is a polyglot cloud hosting platform covering application hosting, database hosting, static sites, and object storage.
SiteHost
New Zealand host that owns its Auckland data center and sells Cloud Containers, a product that runs prebuilt or custom Docker images.

U

Upsun
Upsun is the PaaS formerly known as Platform.sh. Projects are described in YAML and billed per resource, on top of a per-project and per-user fee.

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Who is the best Platform as a Service provider in United Kingdom?

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