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Top 10 Public Cloud Platforms
August 04, 2025 | Editor: Michael Stromann
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Public Cloud platforms provide on-demand storage and computer resources for enterprise data and applications that allow to save money and enhance data security.
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IaaS/PaaS cloud platform with over 200 services, including computing, storage, database engines and machine learning. Provides a global network of data centers and pay-as-you-go pricing model.
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Microsoft Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any alternative language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.
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Google Cloud Platform is a set of modular cloud-based services that allow you to create anything from simple websites to complex applications. Cloud Platform provides the building blocks so you can quickly develop everything from simple websites to complex applications. Explore how you can make Cloud Platform work for you.
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Cloud computing platform for developers. Allows easily build, test, manage, scale applications of any size and also build, train and deploy AI apps and AI agents.
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Heroku is the leading platform as a service in the world and supports Ruby, Java, Python, Scala, Clojure, and Node.js. Deploying an app is simple and easy. No special alternative tools needed, just a plain git push. Deployment is instant, whether your app is big or small.
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Europe’s leading cloud provider, that delivers public and private cloud products, shared hosting and dedicated server solutions in 140 countries worldwide.
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Oracle Public Cloud provides customers and partners with a high-performance, reliable, elastic, and secure infrastructure for their critical business applications and offers customers a complete range of business applications and technology solutions, avoiding the problems of data and business process fragmentation when customers use multiple siloed public clouds.
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Rackspace Cloud offers four alternative hosting products: Cloud Servers for on-demand computing power; Cloud Sites for robust web hosting; Cloud Load Balancers for easy, on-demand load balancing and high availability; and Cloud Files for elastic online file storage and CDN.Rackspace Cloud hosting customers never need to worry about buying new hardware to meet increasing traffic demands or huge traffic spikes.
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Get the best of both worlds – the power of real time + the simplicity of the cloud – with our cloud-based deployment option for SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA, and the SAP HANA platform.
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IBM Cloud offers open cloud infrastructure services for IT operations. The IBM Cloud gives you the flexibility to have public, private or hybrid clouds, depending on your business needs. With the IBM Cloud you can unlock more value in your business and in the technology you already have. It’s the cloud that can integrate enterprise-grade services and help speed up the way you innovate.
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Alibaba Cloud offers a integrated suite of cloud products and services that are reliable and secure, to help you build cloud infrastructure, data centers in multi regions empower your global business.
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Tencent Cloud is a secure, reliable and high-performance cloud compute service provided by Tencent - the largest Internet company in China
Important news about Public Cloud Platforms
2025. OpenStack Cloud to improve access control
OpenStack community has released the new version of its cloud computing platform OpenStack Epoxy with a range of new features, security enhancements and hardware enablement improvements, Epoxy is poised to support more complex and demanding workloads while offering more efficient management tools for cloud administrators. A significant upgrade comes to Manila (OpenStack’s shared file system service). It allows now to modify the access level and gives administrators greater control over who can modify and access shared data. Octavia (OpenStack’s load balancing service) now supports custom neutron security groups for load balancer Virtual IP ports. Thus administrators can ensure that only approved traffic types are allowed to access the load balancer, further reducing the risk of unauthorized access.
