Google Compute Engine Alternatives (September 2025)

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1.
Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/tpu/

Google Cloud's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are custom-built to help speed up machine learning workloads. Contact Google Cloud today to learn more.

2.
Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/edge-tpu/

Google Cloud's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are custom-built to help speed up machine learning workloads. Contact Google Cloud today to learn more.

3.
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/kubernetes-engine/

GKE is the industry's first fully managed Kubernetes service with full Kubernetes API, 4-way autoscaling, release channels, and multi-cluster support.

4.
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/vpc/

Google Cloud VPC is global, scalable, and flexible. It provides networking for Compute Engine VM, GKE containers, and the App Engine environment.

5.
Persistent Disk: durable block storage | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/persistent-disk/

Persistent Disk is Google’s local durable storage service, fully integrated with Google Cloud products, Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine.

6.
Virtual Machines (VMs) for Linux and Windows | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/virtual-machines/

Build Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) and save up to 80 percent with Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances and Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server.

7.
Cloud Virtual Network – Marketplace – Google Cloud console
https://console.cloud.googl
.com/marketplace/details/google-cloud-platform/cloud-virtual-network/

Spend smart, procure faster and retire committed Google Cloud spend with Google Cloud Marketplace. Browse the catalog of over 2000 SaaS, VMs, development stacks, and Kubernetes apps optimized to run on Google Cloud.

8.
Amazon EC2 - Cloud Compute Capacity - AWS
https://aws.amazo
.com/ec2/

Amazon EC2 provides secure, resizable compute in the cloud, offering the broadest choice of processor, storage, networking, OS, and purchase model.

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Cloud Run | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/run/

Build and deploy scalable containerized apps written in any language (like Go, Python, Java, Node.js, .NET, and Ruby) on a fully managed platform.

11.
Cloud Computing | VMs, Kubernetes, Storage | Akamai
https://www.linod
.com/

Simplify your infrastructure with cloud computing solutions from Akamai (formerly Linode). Develop, deploy, and scale faster and easier.

12.
Cloud Monitoring | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/monitoring/

Gain visibility into the performance, uptime, and overall health of cloud-powered apps on Google Cloud and other cloud or on-premises environments.

13.
App Engine Application Platform | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/appengine/

Google App Engine lets app developers build scalable web and mobile back ends in any programming language on a fully managed serverless platform.

14.
Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/virtual-machine-scale-sets/

Make autoscaling your VMs easier with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Run thousands of virtual machines in minutes based on customizable metrics.

15.
Deep Learning Containers  |  Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/deep-learning-containers/

Prepackaged and optimized deep learning containers for developing, testing, and deploying AI applications on TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit learn.

19.
Certificate Authority Service | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/security/products/certificate-authority-service/

Simplify the deployment, management, and security of private certificate authorities (CAs) without managing infrastructure.

20.
Anthos Powers Enterprise Container Platforms | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/anthos/

Anthos is the core enterprise technology that empowers Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Google Distributed Cloud (GDC).

21.
Cloud Shell  |  Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/shell/

Cloud Shell is a free online environment, with command-line access for managing your infrastructure and an online code editor for cloud development.

23.
Assured Workloads | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/security/products/assured-workloads/

Assured Workloads allows customers to confidently secure and configure sensitive workloads to support their regulatory compliance requirements.

24.
Cloud Computing Services | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/

Invent with purpose, realize cost savings, and make your organization more efficient with Microsoft Azure’s open and flexible cloud computing platform.

25.
Elastic Compute Service (ECS): Elastic & Secure Cloud Servers - Alibaba Cloud
https://www.alibabaclou
.com/en/product/ecs/

Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) offers high performance, elastic & secure virtual cloud servers with various instance types at cost-effective prices for all your cloud hosting needs.

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Europe's empowering cloud provider | Scaleway
https://www.scalewa
.com/

Build, train, deploy and scale AI models and intelligent applications on a resilient and sustainable cloud ecosystem.

27.
Empower Your Business in USA & Canada with Alibaba Cloud's Cloud Products & Services
https://www.alibabaclou
.com/

Alibaba Cloud offers integrated suite of cloud products and services to businesses in America, to help to digitalize by providing scalable, secure and reliable cloud computing solutions. Try for Free.

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Cloud Build serverless CI/CD platform | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/build/

A fully managed continuous integration, delivery & deployment platform that lets you run fast, consistent, reliable automated builds. Focus on coding.

33.
Empower Your Business in USA & Canada with Alibaba Cloud's Cloud Products & Services
https://us.alibabaclou
.com/

Alibaba Cloud offers integrated suite of cloud products and services to businesses in America, to help to digitalize by providing scalable, secure and reliable cloud computing solutions. Try for Free.

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Cloud Computing Services - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
https://aws.amazo
.com/

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

37.
Cloud DNS | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/dns/

Reliable, low-latency, authoritative DNS serving. Create DNS records with a CLI, or program against a REST API to customize the service to your needs.

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BigQuery enterprise data warehouse | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/bigquery/

BigQuery is a serverless, cost-effective, and multicloud data warehouse designed to help you turn big data into valuable business insights. Start free.

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Kubernetes Engine | Oracle
https://www.oracl
.com/cloud/cloud-native/kubernetes-engine/

Container Engine by Oracle provides a developer friendly, container-native, and enterprise-ready managed Kubernetes service for running highly available clusters.

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Apigee API Management | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/apigee/

Build, manage, and secure APIs—for any use case, environment, or scale. Google Cloud's API management solution to operate APIs with high performance.

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SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/virtual-machines/sql-server/

Lower TCO. Migrate SQL Server workloads to the cloud to get the HA/DR and security of SQL Server combined with the flexibility and hybrid connectivity of Azure.

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Virtual Private Server And Web Hosting - Amazon Lightsail - AWS
https://aws.amazo
.com/lightsail/

Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use virtual private server (VPS) that offers simple management of cloud resources such as containers, at low, predictable prices.

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Azure IoT solution accelerators | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/updates/azure-iot-solution-accelerators/

At Build, we announced the latest update of Azure IoT Remote Monitoring, a solution accelerator that is fully operational right out of the box.

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Global Cloud Service Provider
https://us.ovhclou
.com/

OVHcloud is a global, cloud provider delivering hosted private cloud, public cloud, and dedicated server solutions trusted by over 1.5 million developers.

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The Enterprise VDI Platform from Workspot
https://www.workspo
.com/

Our Enterprise VDI platform delivers virtual desktops and apps across multiple clouds and on-prem data centers with industry-leading reliability.

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Azure Lab Services – Cloud Virtual Machine Labs | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/lab-services/

Azure Lab Services provides secure, sharable virtual labs in the cloud with on-demand or scheduled access to preconfigured virtual machines.

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Operations: Cloud Monitoring & Logging | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/products/operations/

Google Cloud’s operations suite is designed to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve cloud infrastructure, software, and application performance.

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WooServers Cloud Solutions - Cloud | Edge | Streaming | ML
https://wooserver
.com/

WooServers Cloud Solutions provides the best Cloud Server solutions for your evolving cloud needs, suitable for most workloads - Databases, CDN, VPN and more!

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Carbon Footprint | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/carbon-footprint/

Google Cloud Carbon Footprint provides the carbon emissions of your cloud usage. Measure, report and disclose carbon emissions for ESG reporting.

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Cloud Trace  |  Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/trace/

Cloud Trace is a distributed tracing system that collects latency data from your applications and finds performance bottlenecks in production.

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Azure Container Instances | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/container-instances/

Run application containers in the cloud with a single command. Get started in seconds and lower your infrastructure costs with per-second billing.

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Home
https://www.e2enetwork
.com/

NVIDIA H100, L4, A100-80/40GB, A40,A30, RTX8000, V100, and T4s GPUs. Available in hourly, committed, and SPOT. For AL/ML/HPC workloads. NSE-Listed Hyperscaler.

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Tekton  |  Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/tekton/

A Kubernetes-native open-source framework for building continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to build, test, and deploy software.

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Identity and Access Management  |  Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/security/products/iam/

Identity and Access Management (IAM) gives admins fine-grained access control and visibility for centrally managing enterprise cloud resources

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Cloud Storage for Firebase | Store and serve content with ease
https://firebase.googl
.com/products/storage/

Powerful, simple, and cost-effective object storage service built for Google scale. You can use our client SDKs to store images, audio, video, or other user-generated content.

63.
Cloud Compute | Oracle
https://www.oracl
.com/cloud/compute/

Discover cloud computing and infrastructure services that brings significant price-performance and control improvements compared to on-premise.

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Secret Manager | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/security/products/secret-manager/

Securely store API keys, passwords, certificates, and other sensitive data with Google Cloud’s Secret Manager.

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Pub/Sub for Application & Data Integration | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/pubsub/

Ingest events into Pub/Sub to stream to BigQuery, data lakes and databases; messaging middleware for streaming analytics and service integrations

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Cloud Services - Deploy Cloud Apps & APIs | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/cloud-services/

Learn about Azure Cloud Services, which helps you deploy and scale powerful cloud applications and APIs. Supports Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, .NET, and more.

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Azure Virtual Desktop | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/virtual-desktop/

Azure Virtual Desktop combines the scale, security, and cost benefits of Azure and Microsoft 365 for a secure remote desktop from virtually anywhere.

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Secure and Compliant Workloads Anywhere
https://www.runecas
.com/

Identify, manage, and remediate vulnerabilities and misconfigurations on-prem, in your cloud or containerized infrastructure in a unified view

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Document AI | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/document-ai/

The Document AI solutions suite includes pretrained models for document processing, Workbench for custom models, and Warehouse to search and store.

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Autonomous Cloud Management Platform | AI-Powered Cloud Cost Optimization, Performance Tuning and Availability Improvement
https://www.seda
.io/

Optimize your cloud cost, performance and availability while saving time with AI. Use Sedai to optimize compute, storage and data including Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, AWS EC2, Azure VMs, AWS S3, AWS EBS, Google Dataflow and more. Sedai's Autonomous Cloud Management Platform works across AWS, Azure, GCP and On-Premises and can run in three modes: Datapilot, Copilot and Autopilot.

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Get migration ready with the AWS Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool | AWS Public Sector Blog
https://aws.amazo
.com/blogs/publicsector/get-migration-ready-aws-cloud-adoption-readiness-tool/

Driven by the need for greater productivity, lower costs, and more recently being able to scale a remote workforce, organizations around the world are moving their IT workloads to the cloud. Planning a move to the cloud requires upfront pre-migration planning; this is as important as the implementation itself. But it can be daunting to know where to start or what needs to be in place for a successful migration. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) can help provide insight into your level of readiness and what you can do to improve it.

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Salad - Distributed GPU Cloud | 11,000+ daily active GPUs from $0.02/hour
https://sala
.com/

Save up to 90% on cloud costs compared to hyperscalers. Deploy AI/ML production models easily on the world's largest distributed cloud. Perfect for AI inference, batch processing, molecular dynamics & more.

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Vertex AI with Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/vertex-ai/

Try Vertex AI, a fully-managed AI development platform for building generative AI apps, with access to 130+ foundation models including Gemini 1.5 models.

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BDRSuite: Simplifying Data Protection for Virtual & Physical Data Centers
https://www.bdrsuit
.com/

BDRSuite provides the simplest yet efficient Backup and Recovery solution for VMware, Hyper-V, and Physical Servers, for all types of businesses.

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Cloud Computing Training & Classes - Training and Certification - AWS
https://aws.amazo
.com/training/

Build your AWS Cloud Skills with AWS Training and Certification. Learn AWS online with free digital training, in-person classroom training, virtual classroom training, and private on-site and virtual training. Learn more!

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Batch - Compute job scheduling service | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/batch/

Learn about Azure Batch, a Microsoft cloud computing service for running large-scale parallel and batch compute jobs.

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ARM Processor - AWS Graviton Processor - AWS
https://aws.amazo
.com/ec2/graviton/

AWS Graviton processors deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads, optimized for a range of general-purpose, compute, memory, and storage-intensive workloads.

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IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC
https://www.ib
.com/products/virtual-servers/

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers are configurable single- or multi-tenant virtual machines, available with Intel, IBM zSystems, and IBM LinuxONE architectures.

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PowerVM | IBM
https://www.ib
.com/products/ibm-powervm/

IBM PowerVM software is a virtualization environment that can run AIX, IBM i and Linux virtual machines on IBM Power servers.

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HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged HCI Solution | HPE
https://www.hp
.com/us/en/storage/simplivity.html/

Simplify and accelerate your IT with HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged, an intelligent, hyper-efficient HCI solution for edge, VDI, and general virtualization workloads.

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Azure Disk Storage – Block Storage | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsof
.com/en-us/products/storage/disks/

Learn about high-performance block storage for Azure Virtual Machines. Explore cost-effective options with cloud Ultra, SSD, and HDD disks.

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VM Backup - Hornetsecurity – Next-Gen Microsoft 365 Security
https://www.hornetsecurit
.com/us/services/vm-backup/

A powerful, reliable and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs).

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Cloud & Container Resource Management | Densify
https://www.densif
.com/

See how Densify optimizes your cloud and container resources and ensures app and workload performance is optimal.

85.
Unified Storage – Any Data Type, Any Workload | NetApp
https://www.netap
.com/data-fabric/what-is-data-fabric/

Unified storage solutions from NetApp deliver reliable data storage strategies that brings file and block storage into a single, scalable data management platform. Truly unified for any data type, workload, or application.

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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
https://www.ib
.com/products/bare-metal-servers/

IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are 100% dedicated, secure, bare metal servers. Servers are available with Intel, Z, or LinuxONE architectures in a shared or VPC environment.

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Aqua Cloud Native Security, Container & Serverless Security
https://www.aquase
.com/

Full dev-to-prod cloud native security platform on Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Fargate, Lambda, AWS & other container platforms

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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
https://www.ib
.com/products/vmware/

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is hosting for VMware workloads. Configurations range from self-managed to fully IBM-managed on single- or multi-tenant IBM Cloud servers.

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Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK)
https://www.alibabaclou
.com/en/product/kubernetes/

Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) provides enterprise-level high-performance and flexible management of Kubernetes containerized applications throughout the application lifecycle.

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Vision AI: Image & Visual AI Tools | Google Cloud
https://cloud.googl
.com/vision/

Vision AI uses image recognition to create computer vision apps and derive insights from images and videos with pre-trained APIs. Learn about visual AI tools.

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Enhancing Modern App Security: Introducing F5 Distributed Cloud App Infrastructure Protection | F5 Blog
https://www.f
.com/company/blog/distributed-cloud-app-infrastructure-protection-intro/

Powered by technology from Threat Stack, F5 Distributed Cloud AIP delivers comprehensive telemetry and high-efficacy intrusion detection for cloud-native workloads. Customers can now better address a larger threat surface with increased visibility and support in securing both modern applications and the infrastructure they run on.

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Robust Virtual and Dedicated Servers Around the World | Gcore
https://gcor
.com/hosting/

Virtual and dedicated servers in certified data centers around the world with instant access, on-demand upgrades, and 24/7 support at Gcore

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Afi - Intelligent & Resilient Data Protection for the Cloud
https://af
.ai/

Intelligent data protection, purpose-built for the Cloud applications. Afi microservices-based architecture enables unrivaled speed and scalability, while the AI engine ensures high degree of autonomy and resistance to errors

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Platform9: Unified Infrastructure Management
https://platform
.com/

Manage virtual machines and Kubernetes – on-premises, at the edge, or air-gapped – with our flexible platform that reduces ops cost and accelerates delivery of revenue-generating apps.

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20i® - Expect More From Your Hosting
https://www.20
.com/

High-performance Reseller Hosting, WordPress Hosting & Managed Cloud Hosting. Blazing-fast & Ultra-reliable, backed by 24/7 expert support..

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Virtualization | Oracle
https://www.oracl
.com/virtualization/

Discover how Oracle Virtualization helps you accelerate cloud development and deployment, build a secure infrastructure, to reduce business risk and operational cost.

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Block Storage | Oracle Cloud
https://www.oracl
.com/cloud/storage/block-volumes/

Store application data on durable, high-performance block volumes where data stored is persistent meaning volumes can be connected, detached and moved as needed, even beyond the lifespan of the current compute instance.