Cloud Infrastructure

Amazon Web Services

Seattle, Washington, USA

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and platform services including EC2 compute, S3 storage, databases such as Aurora and DynamoDB, EKS containers, IoT, analytics, Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker for AI, and Trainium and Graviton custom chips.

Microsoft

Redmond, Washington, USA

Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications, security products and developer tools such as GitHub. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is one of the largest providers of cloud and AI services to businesses.

Google Cloud

Mountain View, California, USA

Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, BigQuery, Spanner and the Vertex AI platform with Gemini models, as well as Google Workspace. It serves enterprises, public sector organisations and startups through global cloud regions.

Oracle

Austin, Texas, USA

Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It serves enterprises and governments with databases, ERP, HCM and industry applications, and cloud infrastructure for AI training and inference. Founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates, Oracle is listed on the NYSE and headquartered in Austin, Texas.

IBM

Armonk, New York, USA

IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform, IBM Z mainframes and Power servers, IBM Storage, Db2 databases, and automation and observability software such as Instana and HashiCorp Terraform. Founded in 1911 and headquartered in Armonk, New York, IBM is listed on the NYSE.

Alibaba Cloud

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Alibaba Cloud, also known as Aliyun, is the cloud computing business of Alibaba Group, founded in 2009 and headquartered in Hangzhou, China. It provides public cloud infrastructure including Elastic Compute Service, Object Storage Service, databases such as PolarDB, big data and AI services, and develops the Qwen family of large language models, serving customers in China and internationally.

Huawei

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Huawei is a Chinese technology company that makes telecommunications and enterprise networking equipment, consumer devices, cloud services, data storage and AI processors. Its portfolio includes 5G and optical network infrastructure, CloudEngine switches, OceanStor storage, Huawei Cloud and Ascend AI chips. Founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei and headquartered in Shenzhen, Huawei is privately held and employee-owned through a trade union structure.

Tencent Cloud

Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Tencent Cloud is the cloud computing business of Tencent Holdings, the Chinese technology company headquartered in Shenzhen. It provides infrastructure and platform services including compute, storage, networking, databases, content delivery, audio and video (real-time communication and streaming), security and AI services, operating data centre regions in mainland China and internationally for enterprises, gaming and media companies.

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is an American cloud infrastructure provider founded in 2011 by brothers Ben and Moisey Uretsky with Jeff Carr, Alec Hartman and Mitch Wainer. It offers simple, developer-focused cloud services including Droplet virtual machines, managed Kubernetes, managed databases, object storage, app hosting and GPU compute for AI workloads, targeting developers, startups and small and medium-sized businesses. DigitalOcean is listed on the NYSE (DOCN).

Akamai

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Akamai Technologies is a US content delivery, cybersecurity and cloud computing company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It operates one of the largest distributed edge networks, selling CDN and media delivery, web application and API protection, DDoS mitigation and Zero Trust security, and Akamai Cloud compute built on its 2022 acquisition of Linode.

OVHcloud

Roubaix, Hauts-de-France, France

OVHcloud is a French cloud provider offering bare-metal dedicated servers, public cloud, private cloud based on VMware and other hypervisors, web hosting, domains and managed Kubernetes. It designs its own servers and operates data centres in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, positioning around data sovereignty. Founded in 1999 by Octave Klaba and headquartered in Roubaix, France, it is listed on Euronext Paris.

Cloudflare

San Francisco, California, USA

Cloudflare is a US connectivity cloud company founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco. It operates a global network providing CDN, DNS, DDoS protection, web application firewall, Zero Trust access and SASE services, and a developer platform including Workers serverless compute, R2 storage and Workers AI. Cloudflare has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2019.

Vultr is a privately held cloud infrastructure provider founded in 2014 and headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida. It offers cloud compute, bare metal servers, cloud GPUs for AI workloads, managed Kubernetes, managed databases, block and object storage and networking across a global network of data centre locations, aimed at developers and businesses. Vultr is operated by The Constant Company.

CoreWeave

Livingston, New Jersey, USA

CoreWeave is an American AI cloud provider headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey. It operates data centres offering GPU-accelerated compute, storage and networking for training and running AI models, with managed Kubernetes and Slurm services. Founded in 2017 as Atlantic Crypto, it pivoted to cloud computing, listed on Nasdaq (CRWV) in March 2025 and acquired AI developer platform Weights & Biases in 2025.

Equinix

Redwood City, California, USA

Equinix is a global digital infrastructure company founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City, California. It operates International Business Exchange (IBX) colocation data centres in many metropolitan markets worldwide, along with interconnection services such as Equinix Fabric and Internet Exchange, and xScale hyperscale data centres. Equinix is structured as a real estate investment trust (REIT) and is listed on Nasdaq (EQIX).

Rackspace Technology

San Antonio, Texas, USA

Rackspace Technology is a US managed cloud and IT services company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1998. It designs, migrates and operates workloads on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and private cloud infrastructure, and provides managed hosting, security and application services. Rackspace is majority-owned by funds managed by Apollo Global Management and is listed on Nasdaq.

Hetzner

Gunzenhausen, Bavaria, Germany

Hetzner is a German web hosting and cloud infrastructure provider offering dedicated servers, Hetzner Cloud virtual servers, storage, colocation and web hosting at relatively low prices. It operates its own data centres in Germany and Finland, with cloud locations in the United States and Singapore. Founded in 1997 by Martin Hetzner, Hetzner Online GmbH is headquartered in Gunzenhausen, Bavaria, and privately owned.

Lambda

Lambda is an AI infrastructure company that provides GPU cloud computing for training and running AI models, including on-demand instances, reserved clusters and private cloud capacity based on NVIDIA GPUs. It also offers the Lambda Stack software distribution and has sold GPU workstations and servers. Formerly known as Lambda Labs, the company was founded in 2012 by Stephen and Michael Balaban.

Scaleway

Paris, France

Scaleway is a French cloud provider headquartered in Paris and owned by the Iliad Group. It offers public cloud infrastructure including virtual instances, bare-metal servers, GPU compute, managed Kubernetes, object storage, databases, serverless and AI inference services from data centres in Europe. Scaleway positions itself as a European sovereign cloud alternative to US hyperscalers.

Fastly

San Francisco, California, USA

Fastly is an American edge cloud platform company founded in 2011 by Artur Bergman and headquartered in San Francisco. It provides a programmable content delivery network, edge compute based on WebAssembly, web application and API security, DDoS protection, bot management, image optimisation and observability services. Fastly is listed on the NYSE (FSLY).