api: YAML JSON TOON Database
version: 1.0.0
format: toon
dataset:
  id: 2841
  slug: major-cloud-providers
  title: Major Cloud Providers
  description: Leading public cloud computing platforms.
  summary: "The largest public cloud providers with their type and flagship services: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud and Alibaba Cloud, plus developer-focused and regional providers such as DigitalOcean, Cloudflare and Hetzner."
  use_when[2]: "You need the service names a provider uses for compute, storage, functions and databases.",You are comparing a provider's equivalents across clouds.
  caveats[2]: "Market positions, regions and service names change frequently; confirm against the provider's current documentation.",Listing here is not a ranking or a recommendation.
  related[3]: cloud-service-models,cloud-deployment-models,serverless-computing
  entry_count: 11
  fields[3]{section,field,type,example}:
    data,provider,string,AWS
    data,type,string,Public
    data,key_services,string,"EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS"
  category: Cloud Computing
  category_slug: cloud-computing
  tags: "cloud,providers,aws,azure,gcp"
  view_count: 49
  created_at: 1793403093
  updated_at: 1793403093
data[11]{provider,type,key_services}:
  AWS,Public,"EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS"
  Microsoft Azure,Public,"Virtual Machines, Blob Storage, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB"
  Google Cloud Platform,Public,"Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, BigQuery"
  IBM Cloud,Public/Private,"Watson, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes Service"
  Oracle Cloud,Public,"OCI Compute, Autonomous Database"
  Alibaba Cloud,Public,"ECS, OSS, Function Compute"
  DigitalOcean,Public,"Droplets (virtual machines), Spaces object storage, Managed Kubernetes, App Platform"
  Cloudflare,Public,"CDN, DNS, Workers (edge functions), R2 object storage, DDoS protection"
  Hetzner,Public,"Cloud servers, dedicated servers, object and block storage, load balancers"
  Tencent Cloud,Public,"Cloud Virtual Machine, Cloud Object Storage, TencentDB, content delivery"
  Akamai Cloud (Linode),Public,"Compute instances, object storage, managed Kubernetes, edge delivery"