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Alibaba Cloud vs Google Cloud

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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

Google Cloud

Extensive range of managed services with a focus on big data and machine learning
BigQuery and Google Kubernetes Engine are widely considered industry-leading solutions
Strong community and developer tooling
40+ data centers around the world

Price comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Google Cloud?

Example configuration	Alibaba Cloud	Google Cloud
VM Small	$15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small)	$20.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Medium	$89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge)	$90.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Large	$170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge)	$179.87 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
Block Storage	$11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0)	$4.10 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes	$24.93 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$16.56 / mo Small I (slb.s1.small)	$29.44 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$114.92 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose)	$93.60 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA)	$35.28 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (Basic)
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$47.62 / mo 25M invocations, 2nd gen, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	10 GB / mo	Depends on service
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$74.00 $0.074 / GB	$111.60

GCP offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	Total GPU Memory	vCPUs	RAM	Price per hour
g2-standard-4	1x L4	24GB	4	16GB	$0.71
g2-standard-8	1x L4	24GB	8	32GB	$0.85
g2-standard-12	1x L4	24GB	12	48GB	$1.00
g2-standard-16	1x L4	24GB	16	64GB	$1.15
g2-standard-32	1x L4	24GB	32	128GB	$1.73
g2-standard-24	2x L4	48GB	24	96GB	$2.00
a2-highgpu-1g	1x A100	40GB	12	85GB	$3.67
g2-standard-48	4x L4	96GB	48	192GB	$4.00
a2-highgpu-2g	2x A100	80GB	24	170GB	$7.35
g2-standard-96	8x L4	192GB	96	384GB	$8.00
a2-highgpu-4g	4x A100	160GB	48	340GB	$14.69
a2-highgpu-8g	8x A100	320GB	96	680GB	$29.39
a2-megagpu-16g	16x A100	640GB	96	1360GB	$55.74

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.

Which services do they offer?

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

Service	Alibaba Cloud	Google Cloud
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	Google Cloud
Website	www.alibabacloud.com	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	Singapore 🇸🇬	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009	2008
Data Center Locations	30	40
Example Customers	Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank

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

	Google Cloud
Website	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008
Data Center Locations	40
Example Customers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank