Alibaba Cloud Review
Alibaba Cloud was founded as a VPS provider in 2009.
It is headquartered in China.
It offers VPS, Database, Storage and Networking hosting products.
- Australia
- China
- Germany
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Philippines
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Thailand
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
Quick Links
| Alibaba Cloud plans specs and prices | Plans |
| Alibaba Cloud instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are Alibaba Cloud servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of Alibaba Cloud trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in Alibaba Cloud trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of Alibaba Cloud VPS over the long term | Consistency |
| List of Alibaba Cloud yabs.sh results | Yabs |
Alibaba Cloud VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Numerous datacenter locations.
- Large catalog of cloud services.
Weaknesses
- Varying pricing depending on location.
- Complex, hard to use UI.
Alibaba Cloud Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, Alibaba Cloud also sells the services marked green in the following table:
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
| Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
| DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each Alibaba Cloud VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37s | 30s | 45s | 2 |
Control Panel Screenshots
Cloud Storage Prices
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.
| Storage Type | Price / GB / month | Description | Restriction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Object | $0.016 |
Standard Storage. Infrequent and Archive storage option are also available for lower prices.
Alibaba Cloud object storage |
First 5GB free. |
| Snapshots | $0.018 |
US-East price.
Charges only for incremental size of the snapshot.
Snapshots are stored in object storage (OSS).
Alibaba Cloud snapshots storage |
First 5GB are free |
| Block | $0.030 |
"Ultra Disk" is $0.01/GB for Pay as you go in the US east region.
Alibaba Cloud block storage |
Standard SSD Pay as You Go Network Access Storage in US East |
Alibaba Cloud Instance Types and Plans
All Alibaba Cloud instance types
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instance Type: General Purpose |
No description
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/ecs/user-guide/overview-of-instance-families
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| ecs.c8y.small | 1 | 2.0GB | 40GB | $24.45 / month |
| ecs.c7a.large | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | $58.32 / month |
| Instance Type: Other |
No description
Provider page for instance type:
/hosters/alibaba_cloud
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| Starter 1GB 1 core | 1 | 1.0GB | 25GB | $4.50 / month |
| ecs.t5-lc1m1.small | 1 | 1.0GB | 40GB | $6.52 / month |
| ecs.n4.small | 1 | 2.0GB | 20GB | $13.66 / month |
| ecs-t5-c1m1-large | 2 | 2.0GB | 20GB | $14.13 / month |
| ecs.t6-c1m2.large | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | $20.91 / month |
| ecs.n4.large | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | $35.41 / month |
| ecs.c5.large | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | $37.52 / month |
| ecs.c6e.large | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | $41.32 / month |
| ecs.g6.large | 2 | 8.0GB | 0GB | $43.19 / month |
| ecs.c7.large | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | $49.32 / month |