1. They offer an excellent package for enterprises in their trial. We can run two core two GB instance free for 12 months under enterprise edition.

2. Their pricing is relatively better than competitors.

3. They offer Pay on the Go model, which is also beneficial.

4. Various kinds of cloud servers with the different OS are available to run in Alibaba Cloud ECS.

5. We can use Alibaba Cloud ECS for small websites to large AI projects due to availability and accessibility.

6. It has various location options available to set up the servers, which helps to reduce the latency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Its user interface is quite old, it needs much improvement.

2. Some documentation or sub portals in only available in Chinese, which is the worst thing about Alibaba cloud. One needs to translate everything every time to understand the item and complete the task.

3. Setting up for the first time could be a slight hassle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to use, interface is easy to navigate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Too many products may be confusing which one is the most suitable to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alibaba without having any proper preparation and skill of the cloud stage You can use it natural and clear to utilize

Alibaba Cloud ECS for little sites to enormous AI projects because of accessibility and availability

You make payment through Paypal, which makes it more awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To close down the machine and delivery time is considerably more.

Presenting extra stockpiling to the host can regularly be a significantly more chaotic undertaking than contending items. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the characteristics that I love about this service and that is a factor that makes it very complete is that it offers infrastructure technologies such as storage, computing, databases and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

one of the things is that since its interface is very wide and for inexperienced people it is very easy to get lost. my experience with this system is very good and it has never presented irregularities in its operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alibaba Elastic Compute Service is a IaaS that offers a wide variety of regions especially Asia. It is probably the best option if you need a gateway to China. The service also offers data centers in the EU and US so there is no worry about different data regulations as GDPR and CCPA.

You can create Linux and Windows instances. Container Service is free - you only pay for the compute instance.

Simplified billing process with many payment options. The payment options include PayPal, various credit cards in addition to the standard ones like Visa and Mastercard and even a bank transfer.

The billing plans include Pay-As-You-Go and Subscription. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although the pricing is flexible the prices are different across the regions which makes the billing calculations more difficult.

If you need to store very sensitive information this can be a problem for some customers as it is a Chinese company.

I also dislike that the free tier is very limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

user interface and ease of use. i started using Alibaba without having any formal training and knowhow of the cloud platform but it was so easy and obvious to use that i hardly found any challenge in implementing the required changes to the project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

May be if i compare the total number of services available in comparison to AWS or Google. i thing they can do better by introducing more and more services to the portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most helpful part about this service is the price offered versus his competitors. Also another important par is the cheap courses offered to make you learn and also the cloud academy platform which is very accessible to all users. The webinars and video meetings can be accessed from every part of the world. I do recommend this service if you want to improve your public cloud knowledge. The best part is helping you to diverse your marketplace. Another best option offered is the cheap e-learning courses, with less than 1$ you can buy many courses. Even the certification process if pretty straight forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometime, the platform is loading a little bit hard than usual. Requires a little bit of learning curve before you will get familiar with it. You will need also to register your credit card with them and they are not accepting prepaid virtual cards. Sometimes the verification process is a little bit slower. If you are using a Revolut card, you might see some issues, but if you tag their transactions as safe, then you could resume the Alibaba Cloud transactions afterwards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Auto scaling based on the real time demand

By default it support Anti-DDoS protection to safeguard our data and applications from DDoS and Trojan attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

use of Aliyun Linux,in public image ,which is not a well know OS present in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The major attribute which is I like about Alibaba ECS instance is its Inherent Security like default Anti -Ddos attribute, ability to configure Security Groups so as to keep legitimate traffic into the ECS instance and there by keeping a Watch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is no such out of the box, there may be a need of a defined connector while accessing the ECS machine in a Multi Cloud scenario. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A wide range of offerings capturing the small non-production requirements to large bare metal requirements for high iops db transactions. The prices are highly competitive and you can leverage the benefit of OP-EX pricing by paying only as per your usage. The instances are available in all major os options. The overall performance is very satisfactory and I have recommended these products for running my client's mission-critical applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There isn't much to dislike per se but the unavailability of auto-enable “No fees for stopped instances” feature is a real issue if your team forgets to enable it. It can cause huge unwanted infra bills which would require a lot of tracking for identifying the culprit machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.