Paid in arrears

Alibaba Group's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, containers, serverless functions and managed services.

Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud infrastructure provider, spanning 123 Availability Zones in 39 geographic Regions.

Amazon's function-as-a-service primitive, running a handler on demand in a short-lived isolated environment and billing per invocation.

Microsoft's hyperscale cloud — hundreds of separately metered infrastructure services, with App Service as the managed application layer above them.

AI inference platform offering token-priced model APIs and dedicated GPU deployments of customers' own models, billed per minute and able to scale to zero.

Australian VPS provider selling hourly-billed NVMe cloud servers with independently adjustable memory, storage and transfer, and a public API.

British Kubernetes-first cloud that charges for worker nodes only, with control planes included and data transfer unmetered.

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.

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

DigitalOcean Functions is a function-as-a-service platform built on Apache OpenWhisk, running short-lived handlers in several native language runtimes.

Firebase is Google's application platform, bundling a document database, authentication and storage with hosting that builds framework applications onto Cloud Run.

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

Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.

Gcore is an edge and cloud provider selling CDN, streaming, DDoS protection, virtual machines, bare metal, Kubernetes and serverless functions.

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.

Google Cloud Run runs any container image, scales it to zero when idle and bills per request and per resource-second.

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

Hetzner is an independent German hosting company offering VPS, dedicated servers, cloud and storage infrastructure from its own data centers.

Hostim is a Docker-first platform-as-a-service from Germany, deploying container images, Git repositories and Compose files onto bare metal in the EU.

French platform that deploys containers and repositories across global regions with scale-to-zero, per-second billing, GPUs and serverless Postgres.

US GPU cloud selling on-demand NVIDIA GPU instances, reserved multi-node clusters and private cloud capacity.

Bare-metal and GPU infrastructure billed hourly with automated provisioning, an API, SDKs, a CLI and Terraform support.

Linode is a US VPS provider founded in 2003, acquired by Akamai in 2022 and now sold as Akamai Cloud.

A Bielefeld startup that runs an application as a managed container in Germany, or operates Kubernetes inside the customer's own cloud account.

Serverless compute platform for Python, where functions are decorated in code and run in containers on CPU or GPU with per-second billing.

Shared hosting metered by what a site consumes rather than sold by the plan.

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

British platform running containers, jobs and managed databases on its own cloud, in the customer's cloud account, or on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster.

Managed application platform deploying Node, Java, Go, Ruby, PHP, Python and Docker workloads with per-second billing and managed databases alongside.

Railway is a polyglot deployment platform with subscription plus usage billing, four regions and a build system that detects most common languages.

French cloud provider selling instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, serverless containers and managed databases, with European data residency as the pitch.

European function-as-a-service from Scaleway, running Node, Python, Go, Rust and PHP handlers billed by request and by memory consumed.

French platform-as-a-service with git-push deploys, buildpacks, managed databases and review apps, running only in French regions.

Sevalla is a polyglot cloud hosting platform covering application hosting, database hosting, static sites, and object storage.

German Docker hosting that bills for the server rather than the container, so unlimited services can share one machine, with managed Postgres and S3 storage.

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.