Public Clouds

There are several Public Cloud implementations, among the most popular are included: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, DigitalOcean and Alibaba Cloud. Almost all cloud computing providers offers free trials, most cloud providers require a credit or debit card to sign-in, IBM Cloud do not require credit card for free trial.

Top Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers include:

• AWS (2006)
• Microsoft Azure
• IBM Cloud (free trial without credit card in IBM Lite account since 2017)
• Google Cloud
• Salesforce
• Alibaba Cloud (2009)
• DigitalOcean (2011)
• Cloud Foundry
• Vultr (2014)
• Oracle Cloud (Oct 2016)
• Huawei Cloud
• Tencent Cloud

Related

• NEC
• Magic Quadrant: Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Services (CIPS)
• Free tier

See also

• Cloud: cloud providers, cloud timeline, serverless computing, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, IBM Cloud, Alibaba CloudAlibaba, Tencent, Baidu, VPC, Cloud Foundry, Snowflake, Huawei Cloud, Oracle Cloud, CISPE, CIPS, Free trial, Cloudera, Vantage.sh, Render

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/account?topic=account-accounts

https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/announcements/introducing-ibm-cloud-lite-account-2