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
Scaleway
Website scaleway.com
Headquarters France 🇫🇷
Founded 1999
Data Center Locations 9
Example Customers Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

Cost Comparison

How do Alibaba Cloud's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration Alibaba Cloud Scaleway
VM Small $15.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (ecs.xn4.small) $10.87 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium $89.79 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.xlarge) $42.38 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large $170.49 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (ecs.c7.2xlarge) $172.77 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage $11.20 / mo 100 GB (Enhanced SSD PL0) $10.32 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $43.84 / mo 1 TB, 250 GB reads, 100 GB writes $15.76 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer $16.56 / mo Small I (slb.s1.small) $12.52 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL $114.92 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (general-purpose) $34.77 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $43.09 / mo 1 GB Performance-enhanced (HA) $38.03 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions -- $28.52 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance 10 GB / mo --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $74.00 $0.074 / GB Free for most services

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 Scaleway offer:

Service Alibaba Cloud Scaleway
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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Our data for Alibaba Cloud was last updated on Feb. 14, 2024, and for Scaleway on Feb. 10, 2024.