Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (Cloud IaaS) Providers

Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

What is Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Providers?

Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platforms offer a wide array of “hosting” features, in varying degrees. IaaS can be thought of as “data center in the cloud”. But unlike traditional data center infrastructure, Cloud IaaS allows consumption of compute, storage, and networking resources via a utility cost model that allows resources to be scaled up or down as required to balance performance against cost effectiveness

Common Features

  • Analytics and Reporting
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Workflow Management
  • Cloud Integration
  • Access Management
  • Multi Cloud Management
  • SLA Management
  • Cloud Backup
  • Capacity Management
  • Encryption and Decryption Support
  • Systems Performance Management
  • Load Balancing
  • Data Migration
  • Automated Deployment
  • Open Source-Based
  • Multiple Region Support

Top Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (Cloud IaaS) Providers

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Top Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Providers 2024

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9.0 /10
CX Score
9.3 /10

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers the broadest and deepest compute platform, with over 500 instances and choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model to help you best match the needs of your workload. We are the first major cloud provider that supports Intel, AMD, and Arm processors, the only cloud with on-demand EC2 Mac instances, and the only cloud with 400 Gbps Ethernet networking.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Security Protects
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Composite Score
9.0 /10
CX Score
9.2 /10

Migrate your business- and mission-critical workloads to Azure infrastructure and improve operational efficiency. Run SQL Server, SAP, Oracle® software and high-performance computing applications on Azure Virtual Machines. Choose your favorite Linux distribution or Windows Server.

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Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Helps Innovate
  • Enables Productivity
  • Fair
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Composite Score
9.0 /10
CX Score
9.3 /10

Google Cloud provides the building blocks so you can quickly develop everything from simple websites to complex applications. Explore how you can make Google Cloud work for you.

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Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Security Protects
  • Reliable
  • Respectful
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Composite Score
8.9 /10
CX Score
9.1 /10

From the most comprehensive portfolio of cloud solutions, to the world’s #1 enterprise database, Oracle offers the choice and flexibility to meet your business requirements.

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Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Enables Productivity
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Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10

IBM Cloud™ Bare Metal Servers are single-tenant physical servers that provide you performance and control with low-level access to the hardware resources. Your server isn’t shared with “noisy neighbors,” it’s all yours!

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Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Trustworthy
  • Fair
  • Over Delivered
Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

The world's first truly on-demand OpenStack private cloud platform and automated bare metal. Launch a production-ready cloud in just 45 seconds – without the expensive hardware investment or steep learning curve. Reduce costs and empower your team with secure, reliable, on-demand dedicated cloud infrastructure. Many organizations are stuck building and maintaining their own private clouds, or using a mega-cloud provider. However, building your own private cloud is complex and expensive, and the big cloud providers can be costly and inflexible. We provide an open source alternative with lower costs, more transparency and control, and greater flexibility, all tailored to your unique needs.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

DigitalOcean helps you create, automate, and manage a robust infrastructure with features like API, Floating IPs, Shared Private Networking, and Team Accounts.

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Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Helps Innovate
  • Altruistic
CloudSigma

CloudSigma

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

CloudSigma platform is a comprehensive turnkey software solution for Service Providers such as Managed Services Providers, System Integrators, VARs, data centre providers or Telcos who want to enter the fast growing cloud services market with their own branded offering

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

Alibaba Cloud offers high-performance, elastic computing power in the cloud. Services are available on a pay-as-you-go basis and include data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, Anti-DDoS protection and content delivery networks (CDN). At the same time Alibaba Cloud is committed to the research and development of large database systems and advanced big data technologies. Our R&D efforts include the advancement of IoT (Internet of Things) technology, virtual reality, smart homes, automotive networking and information systems, and cloud-based mobile-device operating systems.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Altruistic
  • Effective Service
  • Unique Features

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Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Hyperconvergence, virtualization, and the software-defined datacenter have enabled a fundamental advancement to how efficient, secure, flexible, and in turn – cost effective, cloud infrastructure can now be built & deployed.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing