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Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) vs. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS)

    Score5.9 out of 10
    N/AAlibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) provides fast memory and Intel CPUs to help power cloud applications and achieve fast results with low latency. All ECS instances come with Anti-DDoS protection to safeguard data and applications from DDoS and Trojan attacks.N/A

    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and run images on multiple systems.

    $0.01

    per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis

    Pricing
    Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS)Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Data Transfer
    $0.00 - $0.09
    per GB
    On-Demand
    $0.0042 - $6.528
    per Hour
    EBS-Optimized Instances
    $0.005
    per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis
    Carrier IP Addresses
    $0.005 - $0.10
    T4g Instances
    $0.04
    per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES
    T2, T3 Instances
    $0.05 ($0.096)
    per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES (Windows)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS)Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Features
    Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS)Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Feature
    Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS)
    -
    Ratings
    Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    9.5
    21 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings10.020 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings9.620 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings9.820 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings9.120 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings9.120 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings9.320 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings9.620 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings9.820 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS)Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (67 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (12 ratings)