We performed a comparison between Alibaba Cloud and Amazon AWS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."ECS is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Alibaba Cloud is the communication it allows between two servers."
"The installation is easy."
"The cost of hosting the solution is very reasonable. It's quite inexpensive."
"It is a scalable product. So, scaling up or scaling down is possible."
"We use the product for storage and as a VPN."
"Feature-wise, it provides many features. ECS, VM, SP, bucket object storage, and databases are the most valuable."
"What's good about Alibaba Cloud is its database service. It's also good in the virtual machine area."
"It integrates well."
"The most valuable feature is scalability, as it is very easy to scale."
"The solution also helps organizations to move applications to a containerized platform."
"I am happy with the dashboard."
"Technical support has been great."
"I like AWS for its scalability, reliability, and availability, and it's much more mature and user-friendly compared to some other cloud providers. The learning curve and time for deployment are also shorter."
"The initial implementation process is not difficult or complex."
"It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house."
"The flexibility of the solution could be improved."
"The user experience must be improved."
"From a performance point of view, Huawei and Azure are faster. Alibaba isn't as good."
"The solution name is not favorable in some markets and could cause us some problems gaining customers."
"Alibaba Cloud's initial setup is somewhat complex."
"From the improvement point of view, there are lots of issues that we are facing. In all the areas, it seems like it is not mature. For example, a customer wants to provision some VM that has many configurations. If I want to show the price to the customer, it is very challenging. The SDK that Alibaba has provided is very limited. We can have the pricing for VM, but we cannot have pricing for RDS databases or some other services. This is a big concern area for us. They should put more effort into the SDKs or APIs that they provide, for example, pricing APIs or pricing SDK. They do not provide support for most of the services they provide. For example, if I want to get the price of MongoDB, that SDK is not available from Alibaba. Similarly, robust API support is required for S3, which is OSS or Object Storage, so that we can read the data in a faster manner, for example, in chunks. We have raised many issues with the Alibaba support team, and they have been fixing the issues after we report them."
"Alibaba Cloud needs to increase availability in Thailand."
"Alibaba Cloud has some problems related to latency and connection issues. If you go for a cloud solution provider, you will need to access the Internet, which may result in latency and bandwidth issues, leading to slowness in operations."
"AWS has room for improvement on the Kubernetes side. I would like to go a little deeper into the Kubernetes target, Elastic, inner system, and all that. The EKS, target, and all these areas need to be improved, but that is not my key area because I am mostly working on the application side."
"An easier way to determine estimated costs quickly would be helpful."
"Its only cons are on the data warehouse side. AWS' data warehouse Redshift is not as good as it should be."
"The sorting model in AWS is a little bit complicated. When you are going through any component, you can get some surprising results."
"Monitoring still needs to be improved."
"One area that could be improved is in data management. They could improve on the data side. For example, I see others with better cloud services and larger data computing capabilities."
"Some extensions are better than others."
"Price can always be cheaper."
Alibaba Cloud is ranked 9th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 16 reviews while Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews. Alibaba Cloud is rated 7.4, while Amazon AWS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Alibaba Cloud writes "The solution is useful for application development, but the user interface and user experience must be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". Alibaba Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase and DigitalOcean, whereas Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, SAP Cloud Platform and Equinix Metal. See our Alibaba Cloud vs. Amazon AWS report.
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