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Hyperscaler

Also called: hyperscalers, hyperscale, hyper scaler, big cloud, big three cloud

An informal name for the very largest cloud providers, which run huge fleets of data centers. No official list exists. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud appear on the lists that the vendors Red Hat and IBM publish.

For example: An investor asks which hyperscaler a startup runs on. The founder answers with the name of the cloud provider that hosts the product.

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