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."It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."
"I rate Alibaba Cloud's scalability an eight out of ten."
"What's good about Alibaba Cloud is its database service. It's also good in the virtual machine area."
"Alibaba Cloud allows for easy setup of mirror sites and backup servers, ensuring data redundancy and high availability."
"It is easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature of Alibaba Cloud is the communication it allows between two servers."
"The cost of hosting the solution is very reasonable. It's quite inexpensive."
"Flexibility and costs were probably the most important thing for us. The cost was one of the big factors for choosing Alibaba Cloud relative to other cloud solutions, especially in Asia"
"The solution has good speed. It's very fast."
"Easy to deploy through the channel model for serverless architecture and easy to integrate through the organization model."
"Amazon AWS is very user-friendly."
"It is easy to spin up resources."
"The product's scalability is good."
"A scalable and secure product"
"The environment is a rich playground, and if you tried to do the same things on-premises that you do on AWS, it would be a lot more challenging to execute. You can open up a virtual machine on AWS, run some experiments, and be done with it. It's much easier than buying new servers, provisioning them, etc"
"AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time."
"I think that sometimes the customer service for Alibaba Cloud is inefficient.... Sometimes it's hard to reach out to them."
"Users use websites as a tutorial. However, the Alibaba Cloud website has the content, and the scripts are copied from Amazon Web Services. We had received customer feedback where the customer asked us to get formulate original content instead of copying from Amazon Web Services. It’s very odd and awkward."
"Alibaba Cloud's initial setup is somewhat complex."
"The flexibility of the solution could be improved."
"The majority of the tools and processes, in general, have a lot of room for improvement."
"The user experience must be improved."
"From a performance point of view, Huawei and Azure are faster. Alibaba isn't as good."
"A big area for improvement in Alibaba Cloud is its support. Another area for improvement in Alibaba Cloud is SDK-based service because sometimes, the SDKs don't work correctly. Support for API-based services also needs improvement in Alibaba Cloud because, at the moment, it's not that stable."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of hybrid Kubernetes management."
"The pricing could be adjusted to provide more advantages versus current on-premise solutions for business applications."
"The problem with AWS is you have to keep up with the technology. If you don't stay up to date with the technology and its latest changes then you won't know what to use in your infrastructure."
"Amazon AWS is a very poor product for students. Microsoft Azure is a better solution."
"They have a low code platform, but it is for intervention."
"If Amazon AWS can offer more self-paced learning tools, on their website, on CBT, it'll be easier for more people to familiarize themselves with their service. Especially when they are delivering new services from time to time. Educational tools that can help users familiarize themselves with their service. It would be great."
"The difficulty of the implementation depends on the project. We have a lot of very complicated and complex project which make the implementation more difficult. However, a small project can be very simple to implement. In general, over 90% of the project tend to be complex implementations."
"The feedback we are getting from our customers, especially here in Turkey where the exchange rate fluctuates regularly, is that the solution is quite expensive."
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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