Compare Alibaba Cloud vs. DigitalOcean
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Pricing and Cost Advice | |
"I don't know the exact cost. It is cheaper than AWS." | "The program is cheaper than others." |
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Questions from the Community | |
Top Answer: The cost of hosting the solution is very reasonable. It's quite inexpensive. Top Answer: The price of the solution is quite good and is one of the main reasons we still use it. Top Answer: We use Azure and Huawei as well, and, from an ease of use perspective, those two are much better. Alibaba should work to make the solution simpler like them. The interface could be more user-friendly… more » | Ask a question Earn 20 points |
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Views 1,676 Comparisons 1,313 Reviews 2 Average Words per Review 471 Rating 6.5 | Views 1,689 Comparisons 1,464 Reviews 1 Average Words per Review 698 Rating 7.0 |
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Also Known As | |
| Digital Ocean | |
Learn | |
| Alibaba | DigitalOcean |
Overview | |
Alibaba Cloud offers a comprehensive suite of cloud computing services to support growing enterprises worldwide, including data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, and content delivery networks. | DigitalOcean has the fastest and most convenient cloud technology to help you easily and more efficiently manage your infrastructure so you can get back to coding. We provide all of our users with high-performance SSD Hard Drives, a flexible API, and the ability to select the nearest data center location. |
Offer | |
Learn more about Alibaba Cloud | Learn more about DigitalOcean |
Sample Customers | |
| Schneider Electric, BorderX Lab, Royal Philips, Catchpoint, Conversant, Blogmint | jQuery Foundation, Pertino, TaskRabbit, Compose, InfluxDB, The Able Few |
Top Industries | |
Comms Service Provider30% Computer Software Company27% Educational Organization10% Energy/Utilities Company8% | Comms Service Provider35% Computer Software Company27% Energy/Utilities Company6% Construction Company5% |
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon, Google and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS). Updated: December 2020.
455,301 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Alibaba Cloud is ranked 12th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 2 reviews while DigitalOcean is ranked 9th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 1 review. Alibaba Cloud is rated 6.6, while DigitalOcean is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Alibaba Cloud writes "Feature-rich and scalable but needs better stability and support for services". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DigitalOcean writes "Has a good system but it should have better security and customer support". Alibaba Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Firebase, Amazon AWS, SAP S4HANA on AWS and Linode, whereas DigitalOcean is most compared with Google Firebase, Oracle Cloud, Jelastic, Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.
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