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Alibaba Cloud vs Flightcontrol

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

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

Flightcontrol

Your AWS infrastructure is managed by a seasoned devops team at a fraction of the cost
Excellent documentation and easy-to-use dashboard
Great developer experience: preview environments, rollbacks, notifications, monitoring
Deploy close to your users, supports 28 AWS regions

Price comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Flightcontrol?

Example configuration	Alibaba Cloud	Flightcontrol
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	--
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	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$74.00 $0.074 / GB	--

Flightcontrol charges a fixed monthly fee to use their service in addition to the standard AWS usage costs. They claim this model gives you up to 75% lower costs at scale when compared to traditional PaaS offerings.

There are currently 4 plans available:

Free: limited to 1 user, but commercial use is allowed.
Starter $49/mo: includes 5 services and multiple users.
Business $249/mo: includes 10 services, preview environments, RBAC and multi-region.
Enterprise: custom pricing, SLAs, premium support.

Additional services cost $15-30/mo, depending on the plan.

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.

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Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Alibaba Cloud and Flightcontrol offer:

Service	Alibaba Cloud	Flightcontrol
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	Flightcontrol
Website	www.alibabacloud.com	flightcontrol.dev
Headquarters	Singapore 🇸🇬	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009	2021
Data Center Locations	30	--
Example Customers	Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers	Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane

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

	Flightcontrol
Website	flightcontrol.dev
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2021
Data Center Locations	--
Example Customers	Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane