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Best Cloud Computing Platforms

Rachana Hasyagar
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Researched and written by Rachana Hasyagar

Cloud computing platforms provide publicly available compute, storage and network solutions that cater for organizations’ core infrastructure needs. Cloud computing can serve many use cases, but is most often associated with the requirement to build, scale, and manage applications.

Cloud computing platforms consist of a stack of cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, and DBaaS) that provide complementary functionality. Companies use these stacks in order to reduce their capital expenditure and manage costs, streamline their application development process, enhance their ability to scale, and store and access company data. Cloud computing platforms charge businesses by their usage of the platforms and allow companies to offload the responsibility of creating and maintaining IT infrastructure. Businesses are typically responsible for implementing additional security solutions to protect the data they keep in the third party cloud environment.

Cloud computing platforms are used by IT administrators and development teams, although the entire business relies on the storage and security of the cloud environment operated by the platform provider.

In order to qualify for inclusion in the Cloud Computing Platforms category, a platform must:

Provide a multi-tenant cloud architecture
Provide live infrastructure usage and performance tracking and reporting
Allow businesses to run computing, virtualization, storage, and/or other core infrastructure needs
Provide an application development and deployment platform
Provide application management tools
Provide access to data on-demand
Be sold using a pay-as-you-go, utilization-based, or subscription-based purchase model

In some cases, a Cloud Computing Platform may provide the following features:

Organize containers and launch container instances
Automate or schedule container execution
Orchestrate and cluster container groupings
Store container images and restrict access to containers
Monitor web traffic and distribute resources to match changes in traffic
Configure public cloud resources to isolate a private network
Abstract the private cloud through private IP addressing, subnets, or virtual networks
Allow administrators remote access to computing resources
Facilitate cold-data retrieval when requested
Provide cloud-based storage for inactive data
Ensure access control over sensitive information
Store unstructured data and relevant metadata
Facilitate data retrieval through APIs or http/https
Consolidate storage infrastructure across storage environments
Allow access to private or public clouds as well as on-premises data
Store data in the form of fixed-sized blocks
Store back up and unstructured file data
Create a simplified file-based storage system
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(51,798)4.5 out of 5

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AWS Cloud is a portfolio of cloud computing solutions that may be used independently, or together as a broader cloud computing platform. AWS Cloud is designed to serve IT administrators and developmen

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(2,072)4.4 out of 5

Azure is a comprehensive computing platform, providing cloud infrastructure, products and services, developer tools, and innovations in data and AI. More than 95 percent of the Fortune 500 choose Azur

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(632)4.6 out of 5
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DigitalOcean simplifies cloud computing so businesses can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With its mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean h

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(468)4.2 out of 5

Oracle Cloud is a portfolio of infrastructure and platform cloud services that may be used independently, or together as a broader cloud computing platform. The Oracle Cloud platform is designed to se

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(321)4.3 out of 5

Aiven is the trusted open source data platform for everyone. Through Aiven, developers can do what they do best: create applications. Meanwhile, Aiven does what we do best: manage cloud data infrastru

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(293)4.4 out of 5
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SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is the company's cloud platform, that brings together intelligent enterprise applications with database and data management, analytics, integration and exten

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(165)4.3 out of 5

Alibaba Cloud is a portfolio of cloud computing solutions that may be used independently, or together as a broader cloud computing platform, often addressing a wider range of use cases. The Alibaba Cl

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(167)4.3 out of 5

NetApp's cloud service offerings are designed specifcally for use with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and/or AWS. The wide-ranging solution includes numerous backup solutions for various formats along

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(132)4.8 out of 5

E2E Cloud, Meity Empanelled and NSE-Listed AI-First Hyperscaler [NSE:E2E] is a cloud service provider that helps users deploy, manage, and scale high-performance computing resources, particularly for

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(26)4.6 out of 5

Azure Command-Line Interface (CLI) is a lightweight cross-platform command-line tool to manage services and accomplish common tasks.

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(6)4.5 out of 5

At Nabstract, we are building the API & SDK that will be required by the CSP to provide abstraction layer for developers and application owners, to utilize network services on demand, at the edge

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(2)4.3 out of 5

CenturyLink is a portfolio of cloud computing solutions that may be used independently, or together as a broader cloud computing platform, often addressing a wider range of use cases. The CenturyLink

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As instâncias de máquinas virtuais em cloud da W2C - Winov Cloud Computing são soluções super performáticas de computação com redimensionamento fácil e rápido, suportando workloads dos mais simples ao

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