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I'm surprised there's been many mentions of DigitalOcean, but none of Linode, which I think of as occupying almost the exact same space in terms of offerings.
Alibaba Cloud if company you work for thinks about providing a service for China customers
Cloudflare. Between Pages, Speed, Access, Workers, durable objects, KV store, R2, Images, etc they’re maybe a small handful of product releases away from being able to replace the providers you mentioned for many users and applications. Plus I’d wager that many applications can be built 100% on Cloudflare today (and are). Benefits? - Pricing. Compare pricing on Workers to functions across those platforms as one examp…
How hard is for them to build something similar to https://calculator.aws ?
Supabase.
Oracle Cloud - good alternative for bandwidth heavy products (used by Zoom) Heroku - For a more "abstracted" cloud that just works Vultr/DigitalOcean - Cheap VMs, additionaly some services like managed DB and K8s Hetzner/OVH - Cheap dedicated hosts Netlify/Cloudflare Pages/etc - for static websites + functions/3rd party services for dynamic stuff
please don't.
I have nothing but the worst experiences with Oracle Cloud. Granted, I was always a little biased against Oracle as a company; but I have a friend working on OCI and assumed that since what I needed was really basic it would be fine.
It really wasn't, it was awful, confusing and opaquely and egregiously expensive.
Been using Tilaa (if you can tolerate being hosted in Netherlands) for nearly 10 years, I'm quite happy with them.
Vultr is not as good, but it's decent enough.
But what separates a cloud provider from a VPS/Hosting provider?
I might argue some kind of object storage, as that's the differentiating feature AWS had when it came out. In which case, I'm not sure what there is outside of AWS and GCP, sadly.