[throwsincenotpc]

> How about OVH, online, GoDaddy, Digital Ocean, Linode???

None of them really are AWS competitors. The competition is Azure and Google Cloud (and a few other enterprise oriented IAAS but not really opened to the public). And frankly, Google Cloud is actually getting really good. Just compare Google Cloud interface with AWS ... it's day and night. And I was extremely critical of App Engine PAAS before and its stupid limitations (and the joke datastore is) so I'm not a Google fan boy at all, quite the contrary.

It wouldn't surprise me if, by the end of 2020, Google Cloud takes a significant size of the market. Right now it has still a few problems though, but nothing that cannot be fixed on the long run. I'm personally thinking about recommending GCloud over AWS to my clients, especially if they end up fixing 1 or 2 few stuff ASAP.

Azure of course it better for anything Windows and .Net related.

[user5994461]

They are not competing directly but their numbers is still important to know the market(s). They are big companies with many customers, they shouldn't be dismissed.

[boulos]

I agree that it's important to size the VPS market, as it directly competes with one of the primary things people come to AWS or GCP for ("How do I host my site?"). As a side comment mentions, I might also include GoDaddy as well as DreamHost and the underlying brands of Endurance, since again so much of the "cloud" is really just people running WordPress "brochure ware" sites.

Having said that, you should realize that some of those companies (GoDaddy, Endurance) are public and even indicate how large they are from an infrastructure sense. Ultimately, VPS and/or website hosting comes down to charging customers $5/month for approximately $0 in infrastructure. The "real" infrastructure money is in either large compute, or "serious" sites. So it is important, but ultimately they'll round towards 0.

Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud, and have never worked for any of the other companies mentioned.

[throwsincenotpc]

My point is it is not the same market to begin with. OVH PAAS and IAAS offer is limited compared to AWS.

[boulos]

Just in case we're not already working on them, feel free to send me your few things and I'll route them to the appropriate PMs and engineers. (Contact info in profile)