Comparison

Alibaba Cloud vs Amazon Web Services (AWS)

No clear leader: Alibaba Cloud (59.9) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) (55.0) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Alibaba Cloud60
Amazon Web Services (AWS)55
Score
vioscaleAI score
Alibaba Cloud60 / 100low · 49%
Amazon Web Services (AWS)55 / 100medium · 74%
Pricing
Free tier
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
Model
Alibaba Cloudfreemium
Amazon Web Services (AWS)freemium
Price level
Alibaba Cloudlow
Amazon Web Services (AWS)low
Starting price
Alibaba Cloud$0.99
Amazon Web Services (AWS)–
Transparent
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
Integrations
Count
Alibaba Cloud1
Amazon Web Services (AWS)11
Security
Certifications
Amazon Web Services (AWS)–
Disclosure policy
Alibaba Cloud–
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
Fedramp
Alibaba Cloud–
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
Gdpr
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
Hipaa
Alibaba Cloud–
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
Pci
Alibaba Cloud–
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
Reliability
Status page
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
Content
Faq
Alibaba Cloud5 items
Amazon Web Services (AWS)6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for cloud infrastructure. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Provider tier
Alibaba CloudHyperscaler
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Hyperscaler
Reach
Regions / global footprint
Alibaba CloudGlobal with significant Asia Pacific presence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)39 regions, 123 availability zones
Compute
Bare-metal servers
Alibaba Cloud-
Amazon Web Services (AWS)-
GPU / accelerated compute
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)-
Spot / preemptible pricing
Alibaba Cloud-
Amazon Web Services (AWS)-
Storage
Object storage
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
Block storage
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)-
Managed
Managed Kubernetes
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
Managed databases
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)-
Serverless / FaaS
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
Network
VPC / private networking
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
Pricing
Free / low egress
Alibaba Cloud-
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
Compliance
Data-residency / sovereign options
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
Ecosystem
Partner marketplace
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud provides a cloud computing infrastructure platform with strong capabilities in security, regulatory compliance, and multi-region deployment. The platform offers integrated services for compute, storage, networking, databases, and serverless computing across international and Asia-Pacific markets.

Independently observed

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS provides on-demand cloud infrastructure and integrated services enabling organizations to build, migrate, and scale applications globally. The platform uses consumption-based pricing and includes a marketplace of third-party integrations.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Alibaba Cloud

from $0.99/moSubscriptionFree tier

From $0.99/month for Simple Application Server instances

  • SAS 1vCPU 1GiB$0.99/month
  • SAS 2vCPU 2GiB$8/month
  • SAS 2vCPU 2GiB (Windows)$10/month
  • SAS 4vCPU 8GiB$32/month
as of verify ↗

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Usage-basedFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
CLI
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✓
Hybrid
Alibaba Cloud✓
Amazon Web Services (AWS)✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Alibaba Cloud

1 total
  • Salesforce
Independently observed

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

21 total
  • Brave
  • Upstage
  • Asana
  • Pokee AI
  • Tailscale
  • 1Password
  • Trend Micro
  • Orca Security
  • Okta
  • Suger
  • Arctic Wolf
  • Cast AI
  • LucidLink
  • Vanta
  • Trend Micro Vision One
  • Brave Search API
  • Orca Security CNAPP
  • Epsagon
  • Databricks
  • CrowdStrike
  • MongoDB
Independently observed
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Alibaba Cloud or Amazon Web Services (AWS): which one depends on you

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