Infrastructure (IaaS)
29 providers in this category.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers rent raw compute, storage, and networking: virtual machines, block storage, and private networks you provision and run yourself. They suit teams that want control over the stack and predictable building blocks rather than an opinionated platform. When choosing, weigh region coverage, instance and egress pricing, uptime SLAs, and the maturity of managed add-ons around the core.
Companies
Neutral ordering. Not a recommendation.
Alibaba Cloud
www.alibabacloud.com
Alibaba Cloud is the cloud division of Alibaba Group and the leading public cloud in China, offering global IaaS/PaaS including Elastic Compute Service (ECS), object storage, managed databases, and CDN.
Amazon Lightsail
aws.amazon.com/lightsail
Amazon Lightsail is AWS's simplified virtual private server offering, bundling compute, SSD storage, and data transfer into flat monthly plans aimed at developers, small businesses, and simple workloads such as websites, blogs, and small apps.
Amazon Web Services
aws.amazon.com
Amazon Web Services is Amazon's cloud platform, providing on-demand compute, storage, databases, networking, and hundreds of managed services.
Atlantic.Net
www.atlantic.net
Atlantic.Net is a cloud hosting provider offering VPS, dedicated, and GPU servers, including audited HIPAA, PCI, and SOC compliant managed hosting.
Cherry Servers
www.cherryservers.com
Cherry Servers is a bare-metal and cloud VPS provider with hourly or fixed-term billing across European, US, and Asian regions.
Civo
www.civo.com
Civo is a UK-based cloud provider (founded 2018) built around managed Kubernetes, offering K3s-based clusters that launch in under 90 seconds with a free control plane and pay-only-for-nodes billing.
Contabo
contabo.com
Contabo is a German (founded 2003) budget-focused hosting provider best known for high-RAM, low-cost VPS and dedicated servers.
DigitalOcean
www.digitalocean.com
DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider offering virtual machines (Droplets), managed databases, Kubernetes, and object storage with flat, predictable pricing.
Exoscale
www.exoscale.com
Exoscale is a Swiss-founded (2011, Lausanne) European cloud provider, part of A1 Telekom Austria Group, offering compute instances, S3-compatible object storage, managed databases, GPUs, and a CNCF-certified managed Kubernetes service (SKS) across 8 zones in 5 European countries.
Gcore
www.gcore.com
Gcore is a Luxembourg-founded (2014) edge, cloud, network, and security provider offering virtual machines, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, CDN, and AI/GPU services across 50+ cloud locations on a global edge network.
Google Cloud
cloud.google.com
Google Cloud is Google's cloud platform, providing compute, storage, data analytics, machine learning, and Kubernetes, which Google originated.
Hetzner
www.hetzner.com
Hetzner is a German hosting provider offering low-cost dedicated servers, cloud VMs, and storage from European and US data centers.