Alibaba Cloud is the cloud division of Alibaba Group and the leading public cloud in China, offering global IaaS/PaaS including Elastic Compute Service (ECS), object storage, managed databases, and CDN. It serves Chinese enterprises and international businesses expanding into Asia-Pacific, with roughly 31 regions and 101 availability zones worldwide. Key services include Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) and a broad AI and data portfolio, backed by ISO 27001, PCI DSS Level 1, and SOC attestations. ECS carries a published single-instance SLA of 99.975% (99.995% multi-zone). Commercially it competes on aggressive pricing, a 12-month ECS trial for new users, and startup credit programs.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2009
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Cloud infrastructure
- Starting price
- $5/mo
- Regions
- 31
- Availability zones
- 101
- SLA uptime
- 99.95%
- Managed Kubernetes
- Yes
- Helm support
- Yes
- Free tier
- Yes
- Vendor lock-in
- Medium
- Open standards
- Yes
- Easy data export
- Yes
- Multi-cloud friendly
- Yes
- Org size
- Enterprise
- Support tier
- Enterprise
- Ease of use
- 3/5
Categories & compliance
Categories
Compliance
SOC2ISO27001PCI-DSS