Managed Kubernetes
19 providers in this category.
Managed Kubernetes services operate the control plane for you, so teams run containers without maintaining the masters, etcd, or upgrades themselves. They differ mainly in how much is genuinely managed: node autoscaling, the add-on ecosystem, Helm support, and upgrade cadence. Look for the depth of the managed layer and how cleanly it integrates with the rest of your cloud.
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 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.
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.
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.
IBM Cloud
www.ibm.com/cloud
IBM Cloud is IBM's enterprise public cloud spanning IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, including VPC virtual servers, bare-metal servers, object and block storage, and managed databases.
IONOS
www.ionos.com
IONOS is a large European hosting and cloud provider (part of the United Internet group, with roots in the 1&1 business; the IONOS brand emerged from the 2018 1&1/ProfitBricks combination).
Kamatera
www.kamatera.com
Kamatera is a cloud infrastructure provider whose parent (OMC Group) has operated since 1995, offering configurable cloud VMs/VPS, virtual private cloud, and fully managed Kubernetes across 20+ data centers on four continents.
Leaseweb
www.leaseweb.com
Leaseweb is a Netherlands-founded (1997) Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider offering dedicated servers, public and private cloud, VPS, CDN, and managed Kubernetes across a global network of around 25 data centers in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
Linode (Akamai)
www.linode.com
Linode, now part of Akamai, provides Linux virtual machines, managed Kubernetes, and storage with straightforward pricing across 11 regions.