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Alibaba Cloud OSS

$ Budgetfrom $2/mo · Last reviewed May 2026

Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) is the S3-compatible object storage of Alibaba Cloud, with Standard, Infrequent Access, Archive and Cold Archive classes. Standard LRS storage is about $0.0173/GB-month with separately billed outbound traffic (egress is not free). It offers a standing 5GB/month Standard free quota plus larger new-user trial allotments, 12-nines durability, and 99.99% (LRS) to 99.995% (ZRS) availability. It targets enterprises and developers, especially across Asia-Pacific, and carries ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, PCI DSS Level 1 and HIPAA attestations; the S3-compatible API keeps lock-in moderate.

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Overview

Founded
2011
Pricing tier
Low
Startup-friendly
Yes
Enterprise-ready
Yes

Cloud infrastructure

Starting price
$2/mo
SLA uptime
99.99%
Managed Kubernetes
No
Helm support
No
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

ISO27001SOC2PCI-DSSHIPAA
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