Cloudinary

Cloudinary is a hosted image and video platform. Its APIs upload, transform, optimize and deliver media, and its documentation starts with REST APIs for image upload. The service is owned and operated by Cloudinary Ltd. under its terms of use, and it runs on AWS servers located worldwide, with regional redundant data centers. Access to the platform is controlled by accounts with role-based administration on the paid plans, and the enterprise plan adds single sign-on and user provisioning through an API.

Worth knowing

The service is offered only as a hosted product, so a creator relies on the vendor’s infrastructure and terms. The company publishes SDKs for several languages and frameworks, which are separate from the service.