We performed a comparison between Alibaba Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 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."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."
"Alibaba Cloud allows for easy setup of mirror sites and backup servers, ensuring data redundancy and high availability."
"It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."
"ECS is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"We use the product for storage and as a VPN."
"The installation is easy."
"I rate Alibaba Cloud's scalability an eight out of ten."
"Overall, there are some very good features on Oracle and it offers good customization capabilities."
"Oracle offers more of the basic functionality needs."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle Cloud is its autonomous database."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The scalability feature of the product is very impressive, especially considering the fact that the tool offers its users a pay-as-you-go model."
"I have found Oracle Cloud to be a scalable solution."
"The object storage and managed backup solution are valuable."
"We appreciate the fact that this solution will operate with both native and third-party applications. This has meant that we don't need to change all of our systems to accommodate it within our network."
"The flexibility of the solution could be improved."
"The solution should have more integration."
"The user experience must be improved."
"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."
"I think that sometimes the customer service for Alibaba Cloud is inefficient.... Sometimes it's hard to reach out to them."
"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."
"From a performance point of view, Huawei and Azure are faster. Alibaba isn't as good."
"The product roadmap strategy for some of the products is not clear."
"The solution’s support could be improved."
"The initial setup can be a bit complex."
"The framework from AWS is so good, I would like to see this feature in OCI."
"Portability of the VMware environment into the Oracle Cloud should be made more simple."
"The solution is expensive"
"Specific to the Oracle Cloud; while they have been able to showcase inbuilt features for Oracle applications, what doesn't really come across clearly is what happens when you want to host, work with, or integrate with applications outside of the Oracle stack."
"One improvement that would be helpful is the addition of a replication option on their Standard Edition OD service. Currently, this option is not available, which leads many customers to move to the Enterprise edition. However, other cloud service providers, such as Amazon AWS offer replication options at a similar tier. It would be beneficial if Oracle also explored providing this option for their Standard Edition service."
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Alibaba Cloud is ranked 9th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 16 reviews while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is ranked 3rd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 91 reviews. Alibaba Cloud is rated 7.4, while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is rated 7.8. 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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) writes "Cost-effective and can be used to host OIC and APEX". Alibaba Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, Google Firebase and DigitalOcean, whereas Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Public Cloud and Google Firebase. See our Alibaba Cloud vs. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) report.
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