Beam

Competes on boot time.

What it is sold for

Running short-lived containers or model inference on demand.

Same shelf

The rest of hosting and cloud, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.

• Adaptable did not answer
  Template-driven deployment of applications and databases. The domain no longer resolves.
• AWS
  The cloud that set the vocabulary. Nearly everything else in this catalogue either runs on it or is defined against it.
• Azure
  Microsoft's cloud, strongest where an organisation already runs on Windows, Active Directory and Office.
• Cycle.io
  A control plane that provisions infrastructure and runs distributed applications without requiring an operations team.
• Digital Ocean App Platform
  DigitalOcean's managed application hosting, deploying from a repository without cluster management.
• DigitalOcean
  A cloud that competed on comprehensible pricing and documentation rather than on breadth, now pushing inference too.
• Fly.io
  Runs applications and now agent sandboxes close to users, with virtual machines rather than shared containers.
• Google Cloud Platform
  Google's cloud. Strongest in data, machine learning and the parts of Kubernetes it originally wrote.

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