Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's cloud platform and the second-largest public cloud provider, holding ~24% market share in 2026. Azure offers over 200 cloud services including compute, storage, databases, AI, analytics, and IoT, across 60+ regions worldwide.
AWS (Amazon Web Services) is the world's largest cloud infrastructure provider, launched by Amazon in 2006, offering over 200 cloud services spanning compute, storage, databases, machine learning, containers, serverless, and IoT, with 30+ availability regions and 100+ edge locations.
Alibaba Cloud is the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, #1 in the Asia Pacific market and #3 globally, offering elastic compute, cloud databases, AI platform, big data analytics, and security compliance, operating 89 availability zones across 30 regions worldwide.
STACKIT is a German cloud infrastructure provider built collaboratively by German banks and insurance companies, offering cloud services that meet strict financial-industry compliance requirements, including cloud servers, managed Kubernetes, and object storage.
Packet is the bare metal automation cloud platform under Equinix (now Equinix Metal), providing fully automated single-tenant dedicated servers via API in minutes, leveraging the Equinix global data center network with NVIDIA GPU instances for HPC, AI training, and physical isolation workloads.
Akamai is a globally leading content delivery and cloud security provider that entered cloud computing by acquiring Linode, offering edge cloud and managed services. Combined with one of the world's largest distributed edge networks, Akamai now delivers full-stack cloud solutions from edge computing to cloud servers.