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
Railway
Website railway.app
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2020
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers --

Cost Comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Railway?

Example configuration Alibaba Cloud Railway
VM Small $15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small) $30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
VM Medium $89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge) $160.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM
VM Large $170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge) $320.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM
Block Storage $11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0) $25.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes --
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) $92.50 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA) $30.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
Free egress allowance 10 GB / mo --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $74.00 $0.074 / GB $100.00 $0.1 / GB

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 Railway offer:

Service Alibaba Cloud Railway
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 --

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Our data for Alibaba Cloud was last updated on Feb. 14, 2024, and for Railway on Feb. 19, 2024.