• Tier #1 (Top Tier):
  Early to market, wide offering, strong synergies between services, well recognized in industry.
  E.G. AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure,Alibaba

• Tier #2 (Mid Tier):
  Backed by well known tech companies, slow to innovate & turned to specialization.
  E.G. IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Huawey Cloud

• Tier #3 (Light Tier):
  Virtual Private Servers (VPS) turned to offer core IAAS. Simple and cost effective.
  E.G. Vultr, Digital Ocean, Akamai Connected Cloud

• Tier #4 (Private Tier):
  Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) software deployed to run in an organisation’s own private datacenter.
  E.G. Oracle OpenStack (previously known as Rackspace), Apache CloudStack, VMWare VSphere.

Current Cloud Leaders = AWS, Azure, Google

Visionaries = Alibaba, Oracle

Niche Players = Tencent, IBM, Huawei