Alibaba Cloud vs Oracle Cloud

The Basics

	Alibaba Cloud	Oracle Cloud
Website	www.alibabacloud.com	www.oracle.com
Headquarters	Singapore 🇸🇬	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009	2016
Data Center Locations	30	39
Example Customers	Taobao, Henkel, Hang Seng Bank, Tiger Brokers	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia

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

	Oracle Cloud
Website	www.oracle.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2016
Data Center Locations	39
Example Customers	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia

Cost Comparison

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

Example configuration	Alibaba Cloud	Oracle Cloud
VM Small	$15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small)	$10.42 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex - 50% burstable)
VM Medium	$89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge)	$27.53 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex - 50% burstable)
VM Large	$170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge)	$92.26 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
Block Storage	$11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0)	$4.25 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes	$25.57 / mo
Load Balancer	$16.56 / mo Small I (slb.s1.small)	$7.86 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$114.92 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose)	$70.56 / mo 4 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.Flex.E4)
Managed Redis®*	$43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA)	$27.94 / mo 2 GB RAM
Free egress allowance	10 GB / mo	10 TB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$74.00 $0.074 / GB	$8.50 1 TB

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 Oracle Cloud offer:

Service	Alibaba Cloud	Oracle 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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