Alibaba Cloud vs Google Cloud

The Basics

	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

Cost 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

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 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)	--

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