Alibaba Cloud vs Microsoft Azure

The Basics

	Alibaba Cloud	Microsoft Azure
Website	www.alibabacloud.com	azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters	Singapore 🇸🇬	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009	2008
Data Center Locations	30	66
Example Customers	Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers	General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

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

	Microsoft Azure
Website	azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008
Data Center Locations	66
Example Customers	General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

Cost Comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Microsoft Azure?

Example configuration	Alibaba Cloud	Microsoft Azure
VM Small	$15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small)	$7.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B1s)
VM Medium	$89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge)	$137.52 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (A4v2)
VM Large	$170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge)	$288.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (A8v2)
Block Storage	$11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0)	$9.60 / mo 128 GiB
Object Storage	$43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes	$21.50 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$16.56 / mo Small I (slb.s1.small)	$23.25 / mo Standard
Managed PostgreSQL	$114.92 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose)	$131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5)
Managed Redis®*	$43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA)	$39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1)
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	10 GB / mo	100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$74.00 $0.074 / GB	$78.30

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 Microsoft Azure offer:

Service	Alibaba Cloud	Microsoft Azure
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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