DigitalOcean

A cloud that competed on comprehensible pricing and documentation rather than on breadth, now pushing inference too.

Won developers by being possible to understand.

What it is sold for

Running servers and managed services with predictable pricing.

The rest of hosting and cloud, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.

Adaptable did not answer

Template-driven deployment of applications and databases. The domain no longer resolves.
AWS

The cloud that set the vocabulary. Nearly everything else in this catalogue either runs on it or is defined against it.
Azure

Microsoft's cloud, strongest where an organisation already runs on Windows, Active Directory and Office.
Beam

Sandboxes, queues and model inference with fast cold starts, sold on how quickly a container becomes ready.
Cycle.io

A control plane that provisions infrastructure and runs distributed applications without requiring an operations team.
Digital Ocean App Platform

DigitalOcean's managed application hosting, deploying from a repository without cluster management.
Fly.io

Runs applications and now agent sandboxes close to users, with virtual machines rather than shared containers.
Google Cloud Platform

Google's cloud. Strongest in data, machine learning and the parts of Kubernetes it originally wrote.

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