Off the Bit
Tools: AWS
Category: Hosting and cloud
Site: aws.amazon.com
AWS
The cloud that set the vocabulary. Nearly everything else in this catalogue either runs on it or is defined against it.
Everyone else's baseline.
What it is sold for
Running essentially any workload on rented infrastructure.
Same shelf
The rest of hosting and cloud, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.
- Adaptable did not answerTemplate-driven deployment of applications and databases. The domain no longer resolves.
- Microsoft's cloud, strongest where an organisation already runs on Windows, Active Directory and Office.
- Sandboxes, queues and model inference with fast cold starts, sold on how quickly a container becomes ready.
- A control plane that provisions infrastructure and runs distributed applications without requiring an operations team.
- DigitalOcean's managed application hosting, deploying from a repository without cluster management.
- A cloud that competed on comprehensible pricing and documentation rather than on breadth, now pushing inference too.
- Runs applications and now agent sandboxes close to users, with virtual machines rather than shared containers.
- Google's cloud. Strongest in data, machine learning and the parts of Kubernetes it originally wrote.
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