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."What's good about Alibaba Cloud is its database service. It's also good in the virtual machine area."
"Feature-wise, it provides many features. ECS, VM, SP, bucket object storage, and databases are the most valuable."
"It is a scalable product. So, scaling up or scaling down is possible."
"It is easy to set up."
"Alibaba Cloud allows for easy setup of mirror sites and backup servers, ensuring data redundancy and high availability."
"I rate Alibaba Cloud's scalability an eight out of ten."
"The installation is easy."
"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"
"It improves the speed for us to access vendors."
"I like the storage, all the codes like Lambda and Amazon EMR."
"Provisioning and resource administration include billing dashboards, which are very extensive."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Amazon AWS is."
"The most valuable features of Amazon AWS are ease of use, deployment, and short lead time. If you are using an on-premise solution, you need to wait for the hardware, and nowadays it is very difficult, the lead time becomes very long. We propose to our customers to use Amazon AWS because it is very easy, no need to wait for hardware delivery."
"It has a lot of new features that make our lives easier in terms of what we want it to do in the house."
"It has a dynamic scaling capacity which is very helpful."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its cloud storage and compute services."
"The solution should have more integration."
"The solution needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"Alibaba Cloud's initial setup is somewhat complex."
"From a performance point of view, Huawei and Azure are faster. Alibaba isn't as good."
"The user experience must be improved."
"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."
"The majority of the tools and processes, in general, have a lot of room for improvement."
"Alibaba Cloud needs to increase availability in Thailand."
"In terms of additional features we'd like to see, the one thing that comes to mind is better integration with Oracle. We have a lot of Oracle databases, and there is no other option to either migrate to PaaS, stay on-prem, or use Oracle Private Cloud."
"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."
"Amazon AWS could improve on security."
"AWS for API, or Seller Central, is no improvement from what we had (our internal tools we designed to update accounts, change customer network profiles, monitoring, MRTG graphs, etc), when AWS should be blazing."
"In terms of improvement, they should try to give more emphasis to the VoIP system."
"There should be improvement in terms of creating databases of varying sizes which would provide flexibility."
"The setup of the solution is not so easy, it requires various skills to complete it. The whole implementation can take a month."
"Some of their well-listed services are not super configurable."
Alibaba Cloud is ranked 9th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 15 reviews while Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews. Alibaba Cloud is rated 7.2, 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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