Compare the Top Cloud Computing Platforms in 2021

Cloud computing platforms have become an integral part of IT infrastructure across the business landscape. Cloud computing platforms enable businesses to build their infrastructure and applications in the cloud, rather than having to rely on in-house or on-premise hardware. Cloud providers save businesses CapEx up front, and typically charge on a per-usage basis, which makes it easy to scale. Here's a list of the best cloud computing platforms:

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    Red Hat OpenShift

    Red Hat OpenShift

    Red Hat

    The Kubernetes platform for big ideas. Empower developers to innovate and ship faster with the leading hybrid cloud, enterprise container platform. Red Hat OpenShift offers automated installation, upgrades, and lifecycle management throughout the container stack—the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications—on any cloud. Red Hat OpenShift helps teams build with speed, agility, confidence, and choice. Code in production mode anywhere you choose to build. Get back to doing work that matters. Red Hat OpenShift is focused on security at every level of the container stack and throughout the application lifecycle. It includes long-term, enterprise support from one of the leading Kubernetes contributors and open source software companies.
    Starting Price: $50.00/month
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    Google Cloud Platform
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    Google Cloud Platform

    Google

    Build What’s Next. Better software. Faster. Use Google's core infrastructure, data analytics and machine learning. Secure and fully featured for all enterprises. Committed to open source and industry leading price-performance. Secure, global, high-performance, cost-effective and constantly improving. We’ve built our cloud for the long haul. Tap into big data to find answers faster and build better products. Grow from prototype to production to planet-scale, without having to think about capacity, reliability or performance. From virtual machines with proven price/performance advantages to a fully managed app development platform. Scalable, resilient, high performance object storage and databases for your applications. State-of-the-art software-defined networking products on Google’s private fiber network. Fully managed data warehousing, batch and stream processing, data exploration, Hadoop/Spark, and reliable messaging.
    Starting Price: $0.01
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    Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    Amazon

    Whether you're looking for compute power, database storage, content delivery, or other functionality, AWS has the services to help you build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. AWS has significantly more services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. This makes it faster, easier, and more cost effective to move your existing applications to the cloud.
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    Microsoft Azure
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    Microsoft Azure

    Microsoft

    Microsoft's Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows for rapid and secure application development, testing and management. Azure. Invent with purpose. Turn ideas into solutions with more than 100 services to build, deploy, and manage applications—in the cloud, on-premises, and at the edge—using the tools and frameworks of your choice. Continuous innovation from Microsoft supports your development today, and your product visions for tomorrow. With a commitment to open source, and support for all languages and frameworks, build how you want, and deploy where you want to. On-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge—we’ll meet you where you are. Integrate and manage your environments with services designed for hybrid cloud. Get security from the ground up, backed by a team of experts, and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments, and startups. The cloud you can trust, with the numbers to prove it.
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    IBM Cloud

    IBM Cloud

    IBM

    IBM Cloud® capabilities enable business agility and resiliency. Explore the platform that gives you 2.5x value. Designed for industry, security and the freedom to build and run anywhere. Business workflow transformation with automation and AI. Strong technology partner ecosystem that delivers value for industry needs. Industry and business domain expertise and solutions. Automated and auditable processes. Unique capabilities for the highest levels of cloud security and monitoring. Consistent security and controls posture across all applications. Containerized capabilities for DevOps, automation, data and security. Ease of integration and a consistent application development lifecycle. Advanced technologies including IBM Watson®, analytics, IoT, and edge.
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    Jelastic

    Jelastic

    Jelastic

    Jelastic is a Multi-Cloud Platform-as-a-Service that helps customers to focus on their business growth instead of spending resources and team efforts on IT infrastructure configuration and management. The cloud platform is designed for ISVs, digital agencies, e-commerce, service providers needing to speed up and simplify applications deployment, reduce infrastructure cost, improve uptime and enhance security of running services. Jelastic automates creation, scaling, clustering and security updates of traditional and cloud-native applications. The company has introduced a remarkable pay-per-use pricing model based on actual consumption. This PaaS is available as a public, private and hybrid cloud in more than 70 data centers worldwide. Being a multi-cloud platform, it also offers interoperability across AWS, Azure, GCP and other mega clouds. The platform is language agnostic and provides certified runtimes for Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python, .NET and Go environments, SQL & more.
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    SAP Cloud Platform

    SAP Cloud Platform

    SAP

    Extend your business processes in the cloud. Extend SAP solutions in a fast and agile way without disrupting key business processes - leveraging existing investments and expertise. Rapidly develop robust and scalable cloud-native applications. Leverage your existing ABAP expertise to create new extensions or renovate existing custom apps. Innovate for business agility with cloud-native, low-code, and responsive event-driven applications. Accelerate outcomes with intelligent business process optimization. Discover, configure, extend and optimize business processes, connecting experience data to operational workflows. Gain impactful and actionable insights to anticipate business outcomes and uncover new revenue and growth opportunities. Harness the power of predictive analytics and machine learning capabilities. Embed real-time intelligence into your business applications. Advance and personalize the user experience for your customers, partners and employees.
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    Rackspace Fabric

    Rackspace Fabric

    Rackspace Technology

    Proprietary software platform, delivers a unified experience across our multicloud solutions. Consistent. Manageable. Efficient. The Rackspace Fabric is our technology service platform which solves your challenge: how to unite all cloud platforms enabling consistency in multicloud. With this service layer, we are able to provide common governance, ticketing, billing, tagging and much more throughout our customers’ multicloud estates. We aren’t replacing your native access to cloud technology, but unifying the service layer between them. This enables a faster, more consistent approach to consuming cloud resources from multiple providers enabling our customers to realize the transformational capabilities of cloud much faster. What makes the Rackspace Fabric totally unique is that we have taken our over 20 years of expertise in all of these threads, added the latest cloud technologies, and woven everything together into one platform.
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    VMware vSphere

    VMware vSphere

    VMware

    vSphere delivers essential services for the modern hybrid cloud. The new vSphere has been rearchitected with native Kubernetes to run existing enterprise applications alongside modern containerized applications in a unified manner.
    Starting Price: $995.00
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    Alibaba Cloud

    Alibaba Cloud

    Alibaba

    As a business unit of Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA), Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of global cloud computing services to power both our international customers’ online businesses and Alibaba Group’s own e-commerce ecosystem. In January 2017, Alibaba Cloud became the official Cloud Services Partner of the International Olympic Committee. By harnessing, and improving on, the latest cloud technology and security systems, we tirelessly work towards our vision - to make it easier for you to do business anywhere, with anyone in the world. Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing services for large and small businesses, individual developers, and the public sector in over 200 countries and regions.
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    Tencent Cloud

    Tencent Cloud

    Tencent Cloud

    Tencent Cloud is a secure, reliable and high-performance cloud compute service provided by Tencent. Tencent is now the largest Internet company in China, and even Asia. It's providing services for hundreds of millions of people via its flagship products like QQ and WeChat. Cloud Virtual Machine (CVM) provides safe and reliable elastic computing services. You can expand or reduce computing resources in real time, adapt to changing business needs, and only need to charge based on the resources actually used. Using CVM can greatly reduce your software and hardware procurement costs and simplify IT operation and maintenance. Cloud databases provide enterprises with complete relational databases, non-relational databases, analytical databases and database ecological tools.
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    Apprenda

    Apprenda

    Apprenda

    Apprenda is a software company and offers a software title called Apprenda. Apprenda is container management software. With regards to system requirements, Apprenda is available as SaaS software. Apprenda includes online support. Some alternative products to Apprenda include Red Hat OpenShift, Cloud Foundry, and Kasm Workspaces.