api: YAML JSON TOON Database
version: 1.0.0
format: json
dataset:
  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:
    - You need the service names a provider uses for compute, storage, functions and databases.
    - You are comparing a provider's equivalents across clouds.
  caveats:
    - 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:
    - cloud-service-models
    - cloud-deployment-models
    - serverless-computing
  category: Cloud Computing
  category_slug: cloud-computing
  tags: cloud,providers,aws,azure,gcp
  view_count: 0
  entry_count: 11
  fields:
    - section: data
      field: provider
      type: string
      example: AWS
    - section: data
      field: type
      type: string
      example: Public
    - section: data
      field: key_services
      type: string
      example: EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS
data:
  - provider: AWS
    type: Public
    key_services: EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS
  - provider: Microsoft Azure
    type: Public
    key_services: Virtual Machines, Blob Storage, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB
  - provider: Google Cloud Platform
    type: Public
    key_services: Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions, BigQuery
  - provider: IBM Cloud
    type: Public/Private
    key_services: Watson, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes Service
  - provider: Oracle Cloud
    type: Public
    key_services: OCI Compute, Autonomous Database
  - provider: Alibaba Cloud
    type: Public
    key_services: ECS, OSS, Function Compute
  - provider: DigitalOcean
    type: Public
    key_services: Droplets (virtual machines), Spaces object storage, Managed Kubernetes, App Platform
  - provider: Cloudflare
    type: Public
    key_services: CDN, DNS, Workers (edge functions), R2 object storage, DDoS protection
  - provider: Hetzner
    type: Public
    key_services: Cloud servers, dedicated servers, object and block storage, load balancers
  - provider: Tencent Cloud
    type: Public
    key_services: Cloud Virtual Machine, Cloud Object Storage, TencentDB, content delivery
  - provider: Akamai Cloud (Linode)
    type: Public
    key_services: Compute instances, object storage, managed Kubernetes, edge delivery