Today, we have lots of cloud service providers across the world. Here is some top cloud provider across the world.
- Amazon Web Service (AWS): Amazon Web Service (AWS) where the first to offer cloud computing services in 2008. AWS is one of the leading cloud computing providers across the world, and they are launching new products and resources at a breakneck pace and are creating their own compute stack, which is more efficient and cost-effective.
- Microsoft Azure: Microsoft Azure is in the second position and is the enterprise's favourite cloud vendor. Microsoft Azure offers 600+ services, and every quarter, they release 10 new services, products, and enhancements for research and development initiatives. Microsoft Azure's cost is similar to Amazon Web Services, but in some cases, Microsoft Azure is more cost-effective than AWS.
- Google Cloud: Google cloud stands in 3rd position with an annual $11 billion annual revenue rate. Google services are looking to expand in retail and financial services. Google offers 100+ products in multiple domains such as networking, storage, machine learning, data analysis, computing and hosting, big data and data analysis. Google's pricing model is based on the pay-as-you-go model. They also offer a $300 credit to a new customer, valid for 90 days.
- Alibaba Cloud: The fourth largest cloud provider in China is Alibaba Cloud, a primary cloud provider. It was founded in 2009, and they were providing platform support to the Alibaba group, but now they are offering cloud services around the globe. The annual revenue rate of Alibaba cloud is $10 billion.
- Oracle Cloud: Oracle Cloud stand at the 5th position in the cloud provider line and have 2% of the market share. Their growth is small compared to other cloud providers. The pricing model is a bit complex, based on CPU utilization, memory usage, etc. Oracle Cloud partners with Microsoft Azure so that clients can run their workload across the two clouds.
- IBM Cloud: The sixth position is held by the IBM cloud, with a market share of less than 5%. IBM provides 174 cloud services for artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, networking, logging and monitoring, database, developer tools, security, analytics and containers.