Cloud Infrastructure & PaaS brand directory

Render

Rank #1 · 31.3% visibility

Render is a fully managed cloud application platform that enables developers and teams to deploy, scale, and operate full-stack applications without managing infrastructure. It supports web services, static sites, private services, background workers, cron jobs, managed PostgreSQL databases, Redis-compatible key-value stores, and durable workflow execution. Core features include git-connected auto-deploys, zero-downtime deployments, instant rollbacks, full-stack pull-request preview environments, horizontal autoscaling, private networking, infrastructure-as-code via render.yaml and Terraform, and built-in compliance (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA). Render is particularly focused on AI-native workloads, offering persistent, stateful runtime support for long-running agents and LLM applications.

Vercel

Rank #2 · 24.7% visibility

Vercel is an AI Cloud and Frontend Cloud platform that enables developers and teams to build, deploy, and scale web and AI applications through a seamless Git-based workflow. As the creator of Next.js, Vercel provides framework-defined infrastructure that automatically provisions optimal resources based on code. Core offerings include global CDN delivery, serverless and Fluid Compute functions, CI/CD with branch preview deployments, a Web Application Firewall, and a growing AI product suite comprising the open-source AI SDK (TypeScript, 3M+ weekly downloads), AI Gateway (multi-model inference endpoint), v0 (AI-powered app and UI generator with 4M+ users), and Vercel Agent (AI-powered code review and agentic workflows). Turborepo provides monorepo build acceleration. The platform serves individual developers through Fortune 500 enterprises across web apps, composable commerce, marketing sites, multi-tenant SaaS, and AI application deployment.

Northflank

Rank #3 · 23.3% visibility

Northflank is a multi-cloud developer workload platform that abstracts Kubernetes to provide a unified, self-service experience for deploying containers, managed databases, AI/GPU workloads, and background jobs — either on Northflank's own managed infrastructure or in a customer's cloud account (BYOC). It bundles CI/CD, preview environments, secrets management, autoscaling, observability, and an internal developer platform into a single API-first product accessible via UI, CLI, and GitOps.

Fly.io

Rank #4 · 22.0% visibility

Fly.io is a global application platform built on owned bare-metal infrastructure, enabling developers to deploy containerized applications, databases, and AI workloads across 18+ worldwide regions. Its core runtime—Fly Machines (KVM/Firecracker microVMs)—delivers VM-level security isolation with near-instant startup, per-second billing, and scale-to-zero. Surrounding products include Managed Postgres, GPU machines, Fly Kubernetes, Fly Volumes, Tigris object storage, and Sprites (hardware-isolated sandboxes). A Rust-and-Go stack, WireGuard private networking, Anycast routing, and SOC2 Type 2 attestation underpin the security and performance story. The flyctl CLI and Machines API make the platform scriptable and CI/CD-friendly, with framework auto-detection for Rails, Django, Laravel, Phoenix, Next.js, and more.

Railway

Rank #5 · 19.3% visibility

Railway is a vertically integrated cloud PaaS that lets developers build, deploy, and scale applications without managing infrastructure. It provides auto-detecting build pipelines, a visual project canvas, managed databases, 100 Gbps private networking, and built-in observability—all from a single platform backed by Railway's own data centers and priced by actual resource consumption per second.

Cloudflare

Rank #6 · 16.0% visibility

Cloudflare is a global connectivity cloud providing integrated networking, security, and developer platform services from a single, programmable edge network. Its Developer Platform — centered on Cloudflare Workers, R2, D1, and Workers AI — enables teams to build and deploy serverless and AI-powered applications across 330+ global PoPs without managing infrastructure. The same network simultaneously delivers enterprise-grade DDoS mitigation, WAF, bot protection, Zero Trust access (SASE/Cloudflare One), and CDN performance — making Cloudflare distinct from pure-PaaS competitors by embedding security and performance as structural properties of the compute layer itself.

DigitalOcean

Rank #7 · 12.0% visibility

DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure and PaaS company delivering a vertically integrated stack — from owned GPU bare-metal infrastructure through managed Kubernetes, App Platform, serverless functions, managed databases, and object storage, up through its Gradient™ AI platform covering inference routing, knowledge bases, and managed agentic runtimes. Designed for simplicity and affordability versus hyperscalers, it serves 600,000+ customers across developer, startup, and SMB segments globally, with growing focus on AI-native companies and higher-spend digital enterprises.

Heroku

Rank #8 · 11.3% visibility

Heroku is a Salesforce-owned AI PaaS that delivers fully managed application hosting, polyglot runtime containers (dynos), integrated managed databases (PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka), and a new managed AI inference layer—all through a streamlined developer experience anchored by git-push deployment, visual CI/CD pipelines (Heroku Flow), and a 150+ add-on marketplace. It serves developers, startups, and enterprises seeking to ship production applications quickly without building or operating infrastructure, with specialized compliance tiers (Heroku Shield) for regulated industries and native Salesforce CRM data integration via Heroku Connect.

Netlify

Rank #9 · 6.7% visibility

Netlify is an all-in-one web development and deployment platform that connects to Git repositories for automated CI/CD builds onto a globally distributed CDN, while providing serverless and edge functions, AI Gateway, Agent Runners, managed Postgres, image CDN, form handling, identity management, and built-in observability—enabling teams to ship static sites and fullstack web applications without managing underlying server infrastructure.

Deno Deploy

Rank #10 · 2.7% visibility

Deno Deploy is a managed serverless platform for running JavaScript and TypeScript applications built on the open-source Deno 2 runtime, offering V8-isolate-based execution, full Node/npm compatibility, GitHub CI/CD integration, built-in Deno KV storage, OpenTelemetry observability, cron scheduling, and a Subhosting API for multi-tenant SaaS platforms.

Coolify

Rank #11 · 0.7% visibility

Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable PaaS that lets developers deploy applications, databases, and 280+ pre-configured services on their own servers via a Heroku-style web dashboard—eliminating vendor lock-in and reducing infrastructure costs compared to managed cloud PaaS alternatives.

AWS Amplify

Rank #12 · 0.0% visibility

AWS Amplify is Amazon Web Services' full-stack platform for frontend web and mobile developers, offering Git-based CI/CD hosting, managed authentication, real-time APIs, serverless functions, and storage—all provisioned against the AWS cloud via a CLI or fullstack TypeScript configuration, with global delivery via CloudFront.