Alibaba Cloud Hyperscaler
Hyperscalers are organizations that operate massive-scale data centers providing a wide range of cloud computing services, storage, and networking infrastructure to businesses and individuals globally. They are characterized by their ability to achieve economies of scale, offer extreme scalability, and maintain high levels of reliability and efficiency.
About Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud was founded as a VPS provider in 2009.
It is headquartered in China.
It offers VPS, Database, Storage and Networking hosting products.
Locations
- Australia
- Australia
- China
- Germany
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Malaysia
- Philippines
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Thailand
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
Cloud Services
All Services
AI & Machine Learning
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Alibaba Cloud Model Studio
Comprehensive platform for accessing and building with industry-leading Generative AI models.
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Platform for AI (PAI)
End-to-end platform for building, training, and deploying machine learning and AI models.
Analytics
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AnalyticDB
High-concurrency online analytical processing (OLAP) database for real-time big data analysis.
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MaxCompute
SaaS-mode data warehousing platform for large-scale data processing and analytics.
Backups
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Cloud Backup
Managed Backup-as-a-Service solution for protecting data on-premises and in the cloud.
Block storage
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Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
High-performance, high-reliability, and low-latency block-level storage for Alibaba Cloud ECS.
CDN
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Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Accelerates content delivery to users globally via distributed edge nodes.
Container registry
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Container Registry (ACR)
Secure image hosting platform for storing and managing Docker and OCI images.
Managed databases
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ApsaraDB for PolarDB
Cloud-native relational database designed for high performance and massive scalability.
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ApsaraDB RDS
Managed relational database service supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MariaDB.
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Tablestore
Fully managed NoSQL database for storage of massive amounts of structured and semi-structured data.
DDoS protection
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Anti-DDoS
High-capacity DDoS protection to defend against large-scale network attacks.
Managed DNS
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Alibaba Cloud DNS
Authoritative DNS hosting service that provides secure and stable domain name resolution.
Floating IP addresses
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Elastic IP Address (EIP)
Independent public IP resource that can be bound to various cloud resources.
GPU instances
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Elastic GPU Service
GPU-accelerated compute instances for deep learning and high-performance computing tasks.
Identity & Access (IAM)
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Resource Access Management (RAM)
Centralized identity and access management for securing cloud resources and users.
Kubernetes
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Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK)
Managed Kubernetes service for running and scaling containerized applications with high efficiency.
Load balancer
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Server Load Balancer
Server Load Balancer (SLB) distributes network traffic across groups of backend servers to improve the service capability and application availability. It Includes Layer 4 Network Load Balancer (NLB), Layer 7 Application Load Balancer (ALB), and Classic Load Balancer (CLB).
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Server Load Balancer (SLB)
Distributes incoming traffic across multiple ECS instances to improve application availability.
Logs management
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ActionTrail
Audits and tracks operation logs of your Alibaba Cloud account for security.
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Simple Log Service (SLS)
All-in-one platform for log collection, storage, analysis, and visualization.
Monitoring
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CloudMonitor
Real-time monitoring service for cloud resources, providing visual metrics and alerting.
NAT Gateway
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NAT Gateway
Enterprise-class gateway providing Internet connectivity for resources in private networks.
Object storage
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Object Storage Service (OSS)
Encrypted and secure cloud object storage service to store and access massive amounts of data.
Private network
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Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Provides a private, isolated cloud network for launching Alibaba Cloud resources.
Search
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OpenSearch
One-stop platform for building intelligent search services with high accuracy.
Serverless
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Function Compute
Event-driven, fully managed serverless computing service that runs code without managing servers.
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Serverless App Engine (SAE)
Serverless PaaS for microservices and web applications, shielding underlying infrastructure complexity.
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Simple Message Queue (SMQ)
Managed message queuing service for decoupling and scaling distributed systems.
VPN Gateway
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VPN Gateway
Securely connects your on-premises network to Alibaba Cloud VPC via encrypted tunnels.
In Depth
Block Storage
| Name Price / GB / month |
Description | IOPS and Throughput prices |
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Product name: Enhanced SSD PL1 $0.152 / GB / month Pay as You Go in US East. IOPS and throughput for a 100GiB disk. |
Alibaba Cloud enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) use 25 Gigabit Ethernet and remote direct memory access (RDMA) to reduce latency and deliver up to 1,000,000 random read/write IOPS per disk. Alibaba Cloud block storage |
IOPS price:
$0.000 IOPS allowance: 6800 Throughput price per MBps: $0.000 Throughput allowance MBps: 170 MBps |
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Product name: Enhanced SSD PL0 $0.076 / GB / month Pay as You Go in US East. IOPS and throughput for a 100GiB disk. |
Alibaba Cloud enterprise SSDs (ESSDs) use 25 Gigabit Ethernet and remote direct memory access (RDMA) to reduce latency and deliver up to 1,000,000 random read/write IOPS per disk. Alibaba Cloud block storage |
IOPS price:
$0.000 IOPS allowance: 3000 Throughput price per MBps: $0.000 Throughput allowance MBps: 125 MBps |
Object Storage
| Price / GB / month | Description | Egress & Request Pricing |
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Product name: Standard Storage LRS $0.016 / GB / month First 5GB free and first 500 millions read requests free. |
OSS: Standard Storage. Infrequent and Archive storage option are also available for lower prices. Alibaba Cloud object storage |
Bandwidth Price: Alibaba Cloud - Standard Storage LRS
100,000 reads: $0.010 100,000 writes: $0.140 |
Network
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Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged Free allowance: 0 GB / month Product range: Pay-as-you-go price.
Transfer pool: yes
Network transfer billing is tied to the IP address you use at Alibaba. An EIP configuration fee per IP ($0.005/hour) is added to the transfer fee per GB.
Alibaba Cloud networking |
Flat pricing: $0.076 / GB
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Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged Free allowance: 100 GB / month Transfer pool: no
Network egress pricing for Alibaba Cloud Object Storage (Standard Storage LRS)
Alibaba Cloud networking |
Tiered pricing:
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Load Balancers
This is the pricing for a regional layer 7 load balancer running in us-east or central.
There are two pricing models for load balancers: Data Volume based and LCU based. The former is the most simple, you are charged primarily by the amount of data that goes in and out of the load balancer.
LCUs (Load Capacity Unit) measure the highest usage across a number of dimensions, usually new connections, active connections, processed bytes, and rule evaluations. The LCU includes a defined capacity in each of those dimensions and you are charged based on the maximum usage among these dimensions per hour. For example if one LCU includes a maximum of 1000 active connections and your usage was 12000 at one point during the hour, you are charged for 12 LCUs.
In all pricing models a base hourly price is added to the LCU or data processing cost.
Data transfer charges are extra unless mentioned otherwise. See network traffic for network prices.
| Name | Pricing | Limits |
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Server Load Balancer Variant: Basic Application Load Balancer Basic ALB price includes 1 LCU |
Pricing Model: LCU Hourly charge: $0.007 / hour LCU charge: $0.007 / hour SSL Termination: yes Network traffic charged extra: yes |
Active Connections: 3000 New Connections Per Sec: 25 Rules Evaluations Per Sec: 1000 Data Processing Gb Per Hour: 1 |
Compute Instance Types
Cloud Server Plans (CPU)
See all plans and instance types
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| Instance Type: General Purpose |
No description
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/ecs/user-guide/overview-of-instance-families
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| Family: General Purpose Instance Type: g9i |
The Alibaba Cloud g9i instance family is a general-purpose instance type utilizing the innovative Cloud Infrastructure Processing Unit (CIPU) architecture and Intel® Xeon® 6 processors with P-cores. These instances offer consistent computing power, a robust I/O engine, and chip-level security hardening. They are designed for a wide range of demanding applications, including game servers, databases, caches, search clusters, web and application servers, and data analytics, providing a 1:4 CPU-to-memory ratio and high network performance. |
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| Family: General Purpose Instance Type: g8a |
Offers a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/ecs/user-guide/general-purpose-instance-families#g8a
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| Family: General Purpose Instance Type: g8i |
The Alibaba Cloud ECS g8i instance family is a general-purpose offering utilizing the innovative CIPU architecture. It features 4th and 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (including Sapphire Rapids and Emerald Rapids) with a CPU-to-memory ratio of 1:4, providing consistent computing performance and a robust I/O engine. These instances offer chip-level security hardening and hardware acceleration for cryptographic and AI workloads (like Intel QAT and Intel AMX). They are suitable for a wide range of enterprise-level applications, including game servers, databases, caches, search clusters, websites, application servers, data analytics, computing, AI training and inference, and audio/video transcoding. |
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| Instance Type: Other |
No description
Provider page for instance type:
/hyperscalers/alibaba_cloud
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