Alibaba Cloud vs Amazon Web Services

The Basics

	Alibaba Cloud	Amazon Web Services
Website	www.alibabacloud.com	aws.amazon.com
Headquarters	Singapore 🇸🇬	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009	2006
Data Center Locations	30	31
Example Customers	Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers	Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro

	Alibaba Cloud
Website	www.alibabacloud.com
Headquarters	Singapore 🇸🇬
Founded	2009
Data Center Locations	30
Example Customers	Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers

	Amazon Web Services
Website	aws.amazon.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2006
Data Center Locations	31
Example Customers	Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro

Cost Comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Amazon Web Services?

Example configuration	Alibaba Cloud	Amazon Web Services
VM Small	$15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small)	$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)
VM Medium	$89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge)	$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)
VM Large	$170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge)	$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)
Block Storage	$11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0)	$8.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes	$24.63 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$16.56 / mo Small I (slb.s1.small)	$22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer
Managed PostgreSQL	$114.92 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose)	$57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)
Managed Redis®*	$43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA)	$114.58 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$36.26 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	10 GB / mo	100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$74.00 $0.074 / GB	$92.16

Note: These pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Alibaba Cloud and Amazon Web Services offer:

Service	Alibaba Cloud	Amazon Web Services
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
Virtual Private Server (VPS)	--

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