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Managed Kubernetes platforms for enterprise buyers

Asked as “managed Kubernetes platform”, and as “hosted Kubernetes service”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 49 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Google Kubernetes Engine
Contested
33% of first choices, contested.
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By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
Small businessDigitalOcean Kubernetes39%ContestedStanding →Mid-marketGoogle Kubernetes Engine39%ContestedStanding →EnterpriseGoogle Kubernetes Engine33%ContestedThis page

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Google Kubernetes Engine33%10%60endorsed leader
02Amazon EKS24%18%61accepted challenger
03Azure Kubernetes Service12%12%59accepted challenger
04Red Hat OpenShift12%14%44accepted challenger
05Portainer4%9%11accepted challenger
06Mirantis Kubernetes Engine2%17%12accepted challenger
07VMware Tanzu2%44%16criticized challenger
Show the two products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
09DigitalOcean Kubernetes0%75%12criticized challenger
08Rancher0%8%26accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.
Head to head
Google Kubernetes Engine vs DigitalOcean KubernetesGoogle Kubernetes Engine vs CivoDigitalOcean Kubernetes vs Civo

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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01Google Kubernetes Engine33%
02Amazon EKS24%
03Azure Kubernetes Service12%
04Red Hat OpenShift12%
05Portainer4%
06Mirantis Kubernetes Engine2%
07VMware Tanzu2%
08Rancher0%
09DigitalOcean Kubernetes0%

02What they warned about

Two of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Kimi K2 and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes
75%
9 of 12 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 6 hard negative
“No enterprise‑grade SLA ... Fewer compliance certifications ... Platforms to **be cautious about** (or outright avoid for most large enterprises)” MiniMax M2.5, negative prompt
Amazon EKS
18%
11 of 61 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Avoid EKS if predictability is your top priority.” Mistral Small, budget prompt
Linode Kubernetes Engine
88%
7 of 8 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“Avoid these for core mission-critical production workloads.” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
VMware Tanzu
44%
7 of 16 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“High implementation cost, complex lock-in, steep learning curve.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

65 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 921 links across 233 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

spot.rackspace.com
vendor site · Rackspace42 answers · 42 citations · 10 models
northflank.com
vendor site · Northflank36 answers · 63 citations · 10 models
portainer.io
vendor site · Portainer34 answers · 47 citations · 10 models
medium.com
29 answers · 49 citations · 10 models
blog.railway.com
vendor site · Railway23 answers · 23 citations · 10 models
dev.to
19 answers · 22 citations · 8 models
lucaberton.com
17 answers · 21 citations · 6 models
mirantis.com
vendor site · Mirantis17 answers · 17 citations · 8 models
technologymatch.com
16 answers · 16 citations · 7 models
g2.com
12 answers · 12 citations · 7 models
squareops.com
12 answers · 12 citations · 6 models
platform9.com
vendor site · Platform911 answers · 16 citations · 6 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

spot.rackspace.com/blog/kubernetes-managed-services
41 answers · 10 models
northflank.com/blog/top-managed-kubernetes-hosting-platforms
25 answers · 9 models
blog.railway.com/p/best-managed-kubernetes-hosting-2026
22 answers · 10 models
northflank.com/blog/best-managed-kubernetes-platforms
22 answers · 10 models
portainer.io/blog/enterprise-kubernetes-management-platform
21 answers · 9 models
portainer.io/blog/kubernetes-managed-services
21 answers · 8 models
medium.com/@BuildShift/15-managed-kubernetes-platforms-ranked-for-developer…
20 answers · 9 models
medium.com/@devlinktips/15-managed-kubernetes-platforms-ranked-for-develope…
16 answers · 9 models
technologymatch.com/blog/eks-vs-aks-vs-gke-managed-kubernetes-guide
16 answers · 7 models
mirantis.com/blog/best-managed-kubernetes-providers-in-2025
15 answers · 7 models

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best managed Kubernetes platform for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which hosted Kubernetes service would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade managed Kubernetes platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best managed Kubernetes platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a managed Kubernetes platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which managed Kubernetes platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service
Two alternativesGoogle Kubernetes Engine, Red Hat OpenShift
Amazon EKSChanged
Two alternativesAzure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine
Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine
Two alternativesAzure Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift
Azure Kubernetes Service
Two alternativesAmazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine
no first choiceagainst: Azure Kubernetes Service
GPT-5.4 miniRed Hat OpenShift
Three alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine
Amazon EKSChanged
Two alternativesAzure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine
no first choiceAzure Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift
One alternativeGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Standard or Anthos / GKE Enterprise
against: Amazon EKSno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle Kubernetes Engine
Four alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift
Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes EngineChanged
Two alternativesAzure Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) / GKE Enterprise
Five alternativesAzure Kubernetes Service, Nutanix Kubernetes Platform, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzu
against: Amazon EKS, EKS AnywherePlatform9
Seven alternativesAmazon EKS, CAST AI, Google Kubernetes Engine, Linode Kubernetes Engine, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift
Google Kubernetes Engine
Four alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, CAST AI, Rafay
against: Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzuagainst: AWS Fargate, Civo, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine, Linode Kubernetes Engine, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, VMware Tanzu, Vultr Kubernetes Engine
Perplexity SonarGoogle Kubernetes Engine
Five alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Northflank, Portainer, Red Hat OpenShift
Amazon EKSChanged
Two alternativesAzure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine
no first choiceGoogle Kubernetes Engine
Three alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Portainer
no first choiceagainst: DigitalOcean Kubernetes, Portainer, VMware Tanzu
Grok 4.1 FastGoogle Kubernetes Engine
Three alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift
Amazon EKSChanged
One alternativeGoogle Kubernetes Engine
against: Azure Kubernetes ServiceAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine
One alternativeRed Hat OpenShift
against: VMware TanzuGoogle Kubernetes Engine
One alternativeAzure Kubernetes Service
against: Amazon EKSAmazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine
Three alternativesAzure Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzu
against: Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine, Linode Kubernetes Engine, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Rancher, Vultr Kubernetes Engine
Mistral SmallMirantis Kubernetes Engine, VMware Tanzu
Three alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine
Amazon EKSChanged
Two alternativesAzure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine
no first choiceGoogle Kubernetes Engine
One alternativeAzure Kubernetes Service
against: Amazon EKSno first choicenothing named
DeepSeek V4 FlashAmazon EKS
Three alternativesAzure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, Red Hat OpenShift
Azure Kubernetes ServiceChanged
Two alternativesAmazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine
Three alternativesOracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift
against: DigitalOcean Kubernetes, Linode Kubernetes Engine, Platform9, RackspaceGoogle Kubernetes Engine
One alternativeAzure Kubernetes Service
against: Amazon EKSno first choice
Two alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service
against: Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Civo, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, GKE on AWS, Google Distributed Cloud, Google Kubernetes Engine, Red Hat OpenShift, Scaleway Kapsule, Swisscom Enterprise Service Cloud "Container Services with Kubernetes", UpCloud Managed Kubernetes
Llama 4 MaverickPortainer
Two alternativesNorthflank, Rackspace
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes ServiceChangedGoogle Kubernetes Engine
Two alternativesRancher, Red Hat OpenShift
Rackspace Spot
One alternativePortainer
no first choiceagainst: Azure Kubernetes Service
Qwen 3.7 FlashGoogle Kubernetes Engine
Five alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift
Google Kubernetes EngineHeld
Two alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service
Google Kubernetes Engine
Three alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift
Portainer
One alternativeRed Hat OpenShift
against: Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engineno first choice
Five alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift
against: Alibaba Cloud, Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine, Hetzner, Linode Kubernetes Engine, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware vSphere with Tanzu, Vultr Kubernetes Engine
Kimi K2Google Kubernetes Engine
Four alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShiftChanged
Four alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure AKS + Azure Arc, EKS Anywhere, Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Kubernetes Engine
Four alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift
against: VMware TanzuGoogle Kubernetes Engine
One alternativeAzure Kubernetes Service
against: Amazon EKSAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine
Two alternativesRancher, Red Hat OpenShift
against: DigitalOcean Kubernetes, Hetzner, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, Linode Kubernetes Engine, OVHcloud, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzu / vSphere Kubernetes Service, Vultr Kubernetes Engine
GLM 4.7 FlashXRed Hat OpenShift
Eight alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Northflank, Portainer, Rancher, VMware Tanzu
Red Hat OpenShiftHeld
Three alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine
Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine
Three alternativesRKE2, Rancher, Red Hat OpenShift
Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform, Red Hat OpenShift
One alternativeRancher
against: Amazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engineno first choiceagainst: DigitalOcean Kubernetes, Linode Kubernetes Engine, Rackspace Spot, Red Hat OpenShift, Scaleway Kapsule, VMware Tanzu, Vultr Kubernetes Engine
MiniMax M2.5Amazon EKS, Google Kubernetes Engine
Three alternativesAzure Kubernetes Service, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes
Google Kubernetes Engine EnterpriseChanged
Two alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service
no first choice
Five alternativesAmazon EKS, Azure Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzu
no first choiceNorthflank
Three alternativesAzure Kubernetes Service, Cloudfleet, Google Kubernetes Engine
against: Alibaba Cloud Container Service, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service, KubeSphere SaaS, Linode Kubernetes Engine, Mirantis, Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes, Platform9, Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzu
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 07:48no05 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 07:43yes46 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 07:47yes1022 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 07:31yes205 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 07:48yes3216 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 07:33yes109 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 07:30yes1015 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 07:30yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 07:46yes542 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 07:22yes1023 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 07:33yes24131 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 07:30yes522 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 07:39no06 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 07:28yes27 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 07:31yes1424 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 07:46yes205 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 07:33yes3418 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 07:30yes54 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 07:42yes1013 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 07:21yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 07:43yes1045 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 07:22yes1772 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 07:25yes1318 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 07:45yes2045 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 07:45yes1910 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 07:36yes59 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 07:38yes1833 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 07:36yes2010 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 07:47yes3618 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 07:26yes811 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 07:22yes2526 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 07:31yes54 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 07:26yes547 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 07:25yes1535 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 07:37yes2578 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 07:43yes1531 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 07:21yes189 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 07:30no08 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 07:42yes1926 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 07:36yes205 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 07:39yes2414 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 07:42yes209 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 07:39yes1918 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 07:42yes54 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 07:35yes11136 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 07:31yes2484 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 07:31yes36210 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 07:25yes17114 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 07:28yes1411 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 07:35yes213 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 07:38yes1128 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 07:45yes209 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 07:46yes1410 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 07:22no06 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 07:22yes2022 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 07:23yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 07:31no043 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 07:39yes2050 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 07:35yes1269 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 07:27yes1026 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 07:21yes189 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 07:34no08 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 07:37yes724 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 07:36yes206 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 07:36yes2415 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 07:29yes56 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 07:27yes2726 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 07:44yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 07:40no056 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 07:43yes2351 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 07:41yes2493 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 07:46yes25109 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
DigitalOcean read as DigitalOcean Kubernetes
Linode read as Linode Kubernetes Engine
Linode (Akamai) read as Linode Kubernetes Engine
Linode/Akamai read as Linode Kubernetes Engine
Oracle (OKE) read as Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes
Scaleway read as Scaleway Kapsule
UpCloud read as UpCloud Managed Kubernetes
Vultr read as Vultr Kubernetes Engine
Vultr (VKE) read as Vultr Kubernetes Engine
Unresolved, counted raw
Alibaba Cloud Container Service
Azure AKS + Azure Arc
Azure Arc
DigitalOcean/KubeOne
Elastisys
GKE on AWS
Giant Swarm
Google Distributed Cloud
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) / GKE Enterprise
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Standard or Anthos / GKE Enterprise
KubeSphere SaaS
Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP)
Loft
Plural.sh
Rafay
Swisscom Enterprise Service Cloud "Container Services with Kubernetes"
VMware Tanzu / vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS)
VMware Tanzu/VKS
VMware vSphere Kubernetes Services (VKS)
VMware vSphere with Tanzu
VSHN
vCluster
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.

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