Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
Top Akamai Essential Compute Alternatives and Competitors

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers the broadest and deepest compute platform, with over 500 instances and choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model to help you best match the needs of your workload. We are the first major cloud provider that supports Intel, AMD, and Arm processors, the only cloud with on-demand EC2 Mac instances, and the only cloud with 400 Gbps Ethernet networking.

Migrate your business- and mission-critical workloads to Azure infrastructure and improve operational efficiency. Run SQL Server, SAP, Oracle® software and high-performance computing applications on Azure Virtual Machines. Choose your favorite Linux distribution or Windows Server.

Google Cloud provides the building blocks so you can quickly develop everything from simple websites to complex applications. Explore how you can make Google Cloud work for you.

From the most comprehensive portfolio of cloud solutions, to the world’s #1 enterprise database, Oracle offers the choice and flexibility to meet your business requirements.

Deploy a hosted private cloud in 45 seconds. No building, no waiting, no risk. Reduce costs and empower your team with secure, reliable, on-demand private cloud hosting.

DigitalOcean helps you create, automate, and manage a robust infrastructure with features like API, Floating IPs, Shared Private Networking, and Team Accounts.

IBM Cloud™ Bare Metal Servers are single-tenant physical servers that provide you performance and control with low-level access to the hardware resources. Your server isn’t shared with “noisy neighbors,” it’s all yours!

CloudSigma platform is a comprehensive turnkey software solution for Service Providers such as Managed Services Providers, System Integrators, VARs, data centre providers or Telcos who want to enter the fast growing cloud services market with their own branded offering

Alibaba Cloud offers high-performance, elastic computing power in the cloud. Services are available on a pay-as-you-go basis and include data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, Anti-DDoS protection and content delivery networks (CDN). At the same time Alibaba Cloud is committed to the research and development of large database systems and advanced big data technologies. Our R&D efforts include the advancement of IoT (Internet of Things) technology, virtual reality, smart homes, automotive networking and information systems, and cloud-based mobile-device operating systems.

Hyperconvergence, virtualization, and the software-defined datacenter have enabled a fundamental advancement to how efficient, secure, flexible, and in turn – cost effective, cloud infrastructure can now be built & deployed.

Choose from over 50 OVHcloud infrastructure services and managed platforms to modernize and deploy your cloud-native applications using your data and AI capabilities

Enable new levels of control, security and scalability between multiple clouds and the edge. Lumen® Edge Private Cloud helps you manage your digital workloads and cloud ecosystems at scale. Increase workload performance while accelerating innovation by optimizing latency‑sensitive apps with scalable private cloud computing and storage.