The first IaaS provider was and is still Amazon Web Services, which is followed by Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud, and IBM Cloud.
Imagine it as a data centre that is remotely managed by a third party. However, with a software layer that virtualizes all of those resources and streamlines customers’ ability to assign them. The first IaaS provider was and is still Amazon Web Services, which is followed by Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba Cloud, and IBM Cloud.