Off the Bit
Tools: Azure
Category: Hosting and cloud
Site: azure.microsoft.com
Azure
Microsoft's cloud, strongest where an organisation already runs on Windows, Active Directory and Office.
Wins on what the enterprise already bought.
What it is sold for
Running cloud workloads inside a Microsoft estate.
The address redirects to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us, which is worth knowing before you follow it.
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.
- The cloud that set the vocabulary. Nearly everything else in this catalogue either runs on it or is defined against it.
- 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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