The Basics

Alibaba Cloud
Website www.alibabacloud.com
Headquarters Singapore 🇸🇬
Founded 2009
Data Center Locations 30
Example Customers Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers
Fly.io
Website fly.io
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2017
Data Center Locations 35
Example Customers Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase, Glitch

Cost Comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Fly.io?

Example configuration Alibaba Cloud Fly.io
VM Small $15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small) $10.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-1x)
VM Medium $89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge) $42.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared-CPU-4x)
VM Large $170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge) $328.04 / mo 8 CPU, 32 GB RAM (Performance-8x)
Block Storage $11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0) $15.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes $21.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer $16.56 / mo Small I (slb.s1.small) Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL $114.92 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose) $33.90 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA) --
Free egress allowance 10 GB / mo 100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $74.00 $0.074 / GB $20.00

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 Fly.io offer:

Service Alibaba Cloud Fly.io
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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Our data for Alibaba Cloud was last updated on Feb. 14, 2024, and for Fly.io on Feb. 29, 2024.