🆚 Alibaba Cloud vs. Amazon Web Services

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Amazon Web Services is much more popular than Alibaba Cloud.
🌎 Amazon Web Services is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
🌍 Alibaba Cloud is more popular in China, Indonesia, and Hong Kong.

Alibaba Cloud

Amazon Web Services

Type

Cloud service

About

Alibaba Cloud is a Chinese cloud computing platform owned by Alibaba Group.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive, cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that delivers on-demand IT resources and services over the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.

It comprises over 200 products, including compute services like EC2 and Lambda, scalable object, block, and file storage, managed relational and NoSQL databases, global networking and content delivery, machine learning and analytics tools, identity and security services,.

Headquarters

Hangzhou, China

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

alibabacloud.com #2,130

aws.amazon.com

Pricing

Free tier ✔️For new users: ECS instance with 1 vCPU and 1 GB of RAM, 1M AI tokens for 12 months + 100 SMS + 10K emails

Free tier ✔️12 Months Free: 750H of EC2 compute + 5GB of S3 storage + 50 GB Elastic Container Registry + 750H of Elastic Load Balancing per month;
Always Free: 1M of AWS Lambda requests + 25 GB of Amazon DynamoDB storage

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Amazon Web Services technology is 13 times more popular than Alibaba Cloud.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Services

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Amazon Web Services is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Alibaba Cloud is more popular in China, Indonesia, and Hong Kong.

United States

China

United Kingdom

Japan

Germany

Australia

Brazil

Canada

India

Netherlands

Awards

🥇 Most popular in China in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Hong Kong in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Macao in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Cambodia in the Cloud Services category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Cloud Services category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Amazon Web Services is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and education and reference, while Alibaba Cloud is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Software/Hardware

Health

General News

Finance/Banking