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Alibaba Cloud provides infrastructure, platform and serverless services spanning 32 regions with support for Linux, Windows, containers and multiple runtimes.

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.

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.

Cloudways provisions and manages servers on other people's infrastructure — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS and Google Cloud — through its own control panel.

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.

Encore Cloud is a backend framework for TypeScript and Go with a control plane that provisions the infrastructure it infers from the code into the customer's own AWS or GCP account.

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 centres.

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, GPU instances and serverless Postgres.

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.

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.

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.

Management layer that deploys applications from GitHub into the customer's own AWS, Azure or GCP account and runs them on Kubernetes underneath.

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.

ServerPilot installs and maintains a PHP stack on an Ubuntu server the customer brings, billed per server and per application.

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.