🆚 Alibaba Cloud vs. Microsoft Azure

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Microsoft Azure is twice as popular as Alibaba Cloud.
🌎 Microsoft Azure is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Alibaba Cloud is more popular in China, Indonesia, and Hong Kong.

Alibaba Cloud

Microsoft Azure

Type

Cloud service

About

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

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that provides a broad range of on-demand services for building, deploying, and managing applications, infrastructure, and data across global Microsoft data centers.

It offers more than 200 cloud products and services, including scalable virtual machines, managed databases, serverless computing, object storage, analytics, identity and access management, and AI and machine learning tools.

Headquarters

Hangzhou, China

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

alibabacloud.com #2,130

azure.microsoft.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 ✔️180,000 vCPU seconds for container apps + 1M Function requests + 100 GB of outbound data transfer + 1,000 Cosmos DB request units per-second provisioned throughput with 25 GB storage + 100,000 vCore seconds of SQL database serverless usage with 32 GB of storage per month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Microsoft Azure cloud service is 1.8 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.

Microsoft Azure is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Alibaba Cloud is more popular in China, Indonesia, and Hong Kong.

China

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Netherlands

Indonesia

Germany

Canada

Hong Kong

Sweden

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.

🥈 Second most popular in Denmark in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Norway in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Qatar in the Cloud Services category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Cloud Services category.
🥉 Third most popular in Australia in the Cloud Services category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Microsoft Azure is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Alibaba Cloud is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, and games sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Finance/Banking

Health

Software/Hardware

Internet Services

Travel

Fashion/Beauty