Google Cloud Platform

Wrote Kubernetes, then had to compete on everything else.

What it is sold for

Running data and machine learning workloads at scale.

Same shelf

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.
• DigitalOcean
  A cloud that competed on comprehensible pricing and documentation rather than on breadth, now pushing inference too.
• Fly.io
  Runs applications and now agent sandboxes close to users, with virtual machines rather than shared containers.

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