Alibaba Cloud vs Backblaze

The Basics

	Alibaba Cloud	Backblaze
Website	www.alibabacloud.com	www.backblaze.com
Headquarters	Singapore 🇸🇬	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009	2007
Data Center Locations	30	4
Example Customers	Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers	Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune

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

	Backblaze
Website	www.backblaze.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2007
Data Center Locations	4
Example Customers	Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune

Cost Comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Backblaze?

Example configuration	Alibaba Cloud	Backblaze
VM Small	$15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small)	--
VM Medium	$89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge)	--
VM Large	$170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge)	--
Block Storage	$11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0)	--
Object Storage	$43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes	$6.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$16.56 / mo Small I (slb.s1.small)	--
Managed PostgreSQL	$114.92 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose)	--
Managed Redis®*	$43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA)	--
Free egress allowance	10 GB / mo	3x the amount of data stored
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$74.00 $0.074 / GB	$10.00 $0.01 / GB

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 Backblaze offer:

Service	Alibaba Cloud	Backblaze
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		--

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