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Alibaba Cloud logo Alibaba Cloud

  • Strong presence in Asia and over 3,000 points of presence (POPs) around the world
  • Extensive range of managed services and server configurations
  • Offers a solid range of GPU servers

Alibaba Cloud logo Amazon Web Services

  • Extensive range of managed services, from serverless to databases to queues to video streaming
  • Generous free tier and savings plan available to lock-in discounts
  • 30+ datacenter locations around the world

Price 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) $24.82 / 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 $90.00 $0.09 / GB (North America)

Alibaba Cloud offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
ecs.gn6i-c4g1.xlarge 1x T4 16GB 4 15GB $1.18 Source
ecs.gn7i-c8g1.2xlarge 1x A10 24GB 8 30GB $2.86 Source
ecs.gn6e-c12g1.3xlarge 1x V100 32GB 12 92GB $3.51 Source

AWS offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
g5g.xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 4 16GB $0.42 Source
g4dn.xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 4 16GB $0.53 Launch
g5g.2xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 8 16GB $0.56 Source
g3s.xlarge 1x M60 8GB 4 30GB $0.75 Source
g4dn.2xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 8 32GB $0.75 Source
g5g.4xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 16 16GB $0.83 Source
p2.xlarge 1x K80 12GB 4 61GB $0.90 Source
g5.xlarge 1x A10G 24GB 4 16GB $1.01 Source
g3.4xlarge 1x M60 8GB 16 122GB $1.14 Source
g4dn.4xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 16 64GB $1.20 Source
g5.2xlarge 1x A10G 24GB 8 32GB $1.21 Source
g5g.8xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 32 16GB $1.37 Source
g5.4xlarge 1x A10G 24GB 16 64GB $1.63 Launch
g4dn.8xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 32 128GB $2.18 Source
g3.8xlarge 2x M60 16GB 32 244GB $2.28 Source
g5.8xlarge 1x A10G 24GB 32 128GB $2.45 Source
g5g.16xlarge 2x T4G 32GB 64 32GB $2.74 Source
p3.2xlarge 1x V100 16GB 8 61GB $3.06 Launch
g4dn.12xlarge 4x T4G 64GB 48 192GB $3.92 Launch
g5.12xlarge 4x A10G 96GB 48 192GB $4.10 Source
g4dn.16xlarge 1x T4G 16GB 64 256GB $4.35 Source
g3.16xlarge 4x M60 32GB 64 488GB $4.56 Source
g5.12xlarge 4x A10G 384GB 48 192GB $5.68 Launch
p2.8xlarge 8x K80 96GB 32 488GB $7.20 Source
g4dn.metal 8x T4G 128GB 96 384GB $7.83 Launch
g5.24xlarge 4x A10G 96GB 96 384GB $8.14 Source
p3.8xlarge 4x V100 64GB 32 244GB $12.24 Launch
p2.16xlarge 16x K80 192GB 64 732GB $14.40 Source
g5.48xlarge 8x A10G 192GB 192 768GB $16.29 Launch
p3.16xlarge 8x V100 128GB 64 488GB $24.48 Launch
p4d.24xlarge 8x A100 320GB 96 1152GB $32.77 Launch
p5.48xlarge 8x H100 640GB 192 2048GB $98.32 Source

Note: Our 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 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) --

Company details

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

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Our data for Alibaba Cloud was last updated on Oct. 14, 2024, and for Amazon Web Services on Sept. 28, 2024.