Since the cloud is becoming the norm, there are many cloud providers in the market that provide cutting-edge technology platforms that are competing to get market share. The following are the major cloud providers (at the time of writing):

• Amazon Web Services (AWS): AWS is one of the oldest and largest cloud providers. AWS provides IT resources such as compute power, storage, databases, and other services on need basis over the internet with a pay as you go model. AWS not only offers IaaS; it has a broad range of offerings in PaaS and SaaS. AWS provides multiple offerings in cutting-edge technologies in the area of machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain, internet of things (IoT), and a comprehensive set of significant data capabilities. You can almost host any workload in AWS and combined services to design an optimal solution.

• Microsoft Azure: Also known as Azure and like any cloud provider, it provides IT resources such as compute, network, storage, and database over the internet to their customers.
  Like AWS, Azure also provides IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS offerings in the cloud, which include a range of services from the computer, mobile, storage, data management, content distribution network, container, big data, machine learning, and IoT. Also, Microsoft has wrapped its popular offerings in the cloud through Microsoft Office, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SharePoint, MS SQL Database, and so on.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP): GCP provides cloud offerings in the area of computing, storage, networking, and machine learning. Like AWS and Azure, they have a global network of data centers available as infrastructure as a service for their customers to consume IT resources over the internet. In compute, GCP offers Google Cloud functions for the serverless environment, which you can compare with AWS Lambda functions in AWS and Azure Cloud functions in Azure. Similarly, GCP offers multiple programming languages for application development with containers so that you can deploy application workloads.

There are many other cloud vendors available, such as Alibaba Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and IBM Cloud, but the major markets are captured by the aforementioned cloud providers. The choice of which cloud provider to use is up to the customer, which can be impacted by the availability of the functionality they are looking for or based on their existing relationship with providers. Sometimes, large enterprises choose a multi-cloud strategy to utilize the best providers.