Alibaba Cloud vs DigitalOcean

The Basics

	Alibaba Cloud	DigitalOcean
Website	www.alibabacloud.com	digitalocean.com
Headquarters	Singapore 🇸🇬	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009	2011
Data Center Locations	30	14
Example Customers	Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai

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

	DigitalOcean
Website	digitalocean.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011
Data Center Locations	14
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai

Cost Comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against DigitalOcean?

Example configuration	Alibaba Cloud	DigitalOcean
VM Small	$15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small)	$6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)
VM Medium	$89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge)	$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)
VM Large	$170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge)	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)
Block Storage	$11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0)	$10.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes	$20.00 / mo 1 TiB
Load Balancer	$16.56 / mo Small I (slb.s1.small)	$12.00 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$114.92 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose)	$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA)	$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	10 GB / mo	100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$74.00 $0.074 / GB	$10.00

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 DigitalOcean offer:

Service	Alibaba Cloud	DigitalOcean
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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