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Alibaba Cloud vs AWS

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What's good about...

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

Amazon Web Services logo AWS

  • 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 AWS?

VM Small

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small)
Amazon Web Services AWS
$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)

VM Medium

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge)
Amazon Web Services AWS
$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)

VM Large

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge)
Amazon Web Services AWS
$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)

Block Storage

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0)
Amazon Web Services AWS
$8.00 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes
Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.63 / mo 1 TB

Load Balancer

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$16.56 / mo Small I (slb.s1.small)
Amazon Web Services AWS
$22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer

Managed PostgreSQL

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$114.92 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose)
Amazon Web Services AWS
$57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)

Managed Redis®*

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA)
Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.82 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)

Serverless 25M Executions

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
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Amazon Web Services AWS
$36.26 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

Free egress allowance

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
10 GB / mo
Amazon Web Services AWS
100 GB / mo

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
$74.00 $0.074 / GB
Amazon Web Services AWS
$90.00 $0.09 / GB (North America)

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
Amazon Web Services AWS
V100 $2.70 $3.06 T4 $1.12 $0.53

Billing Options

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
On-DemandReserved (12mo)
Amazon Web Services AWS
On-DemandReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)

Available Models

Alibaba Cloud offers 4 GPU models, while AWS offers 18.

Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud
V100(14) T4(12) A10(26) P100(12)
Amazon Web Services AWS
H100(6) A100(6) RTX PRO 6000(6) H200(1) L40S(24) B200(1) B300(1) V100(6) L4(30) T4(21)
View all 18 GPUs →

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Alibaba Cloud and AWS offer:

Service Alibaba Cloud AWS
Analytics
App Testing
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
Crash Reporting
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Performance Monitoring
Push Notifications
Realtime Databases
Remote Config
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
User Authentication
Vector Databases
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

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

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Our data for Alibaba Cloud was last updated on Sept. 6, 2026, and for AWS on Sept. 6, 2026.