With cloud computing becoming a renowned model in the industry, the market for cloud environment providers has increased rapidly. There are a number of cloud service providers available today, but we'll discuss some of the top service providers who have made a remarkable contribution to make the cloud model a successful platform.

Google came up with the PaaS-providing Google App Engine. It uses the Python application language and has tools such as the Google file system and data repositories, so it has a stable environment for running an application platform.

Red Hat OpenShift is another good competitor that provides PaaS providers. It has come up with different patterns such as the OpenShift origin, OpenShift online, OpenShift dedicated, and OpenShift container platform (Enterprise).

Amazon targeted the IaaS platform and became the key competitor in this industry with AWS. The reason for its success is the quality of services and availability it provides to all types of organizations. From the perspective of features, it provides its own hardware and gives you control through the network connection.

Vendors such as GoGrid and Rackspace have come up with the hybrid cloud approach, which represents the way traditional data centers work when supplied through a cloud environment.

Microsoft offers the cloud platform with its own product, called Microsoft Azure. With Azure, Microsoft offers different types of cloud platforms, starting from private clouds to PaaS models.

Oracle is trying to target the cloud market with its SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services and takeovers, such as NetSuite and its cloud applications. It has a special offering in the Oracle Java Cloud service, which provides easy, rapid, and agile deployment of Java applications with more control and flexibility of the application in the public cloud.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is another Cloud Provider offering a range of solutions including Private Cloud, it is one of the prominent platform for applications built in Spring and Spring Boot. Spring's micro service patterns and Spring Boot's executable jars are readily available for this platform.

The following diagram shows a bar chart for the most used cloud computing services, based on the provider:

Now let's review different AWS's and their purpose in detail.