We performed a comparison between Alibaba Cloud, Amazon AWS, and Google Firebase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle and others in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)."It is a scalable product. So, scaling up or scaling down is possible."
"What's good about Alibaba Cloud is its database service. It's also good in the virtual machine area."
"It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."
"Flexibility and costs were probably the most important thing for us. The cost was one of the big factors for choosing Alibaba Cloud relative to other cloud solutions, especially in Asia"
"Alibaba support is responsive. When we create tickets in the Alibaba portal, they usually respond online or call me in five minutes."
"The most valuable feature of Alibaba Cloud is the communication it allows between two servers."
"I rate Alibaba Cloud's scalability an eight out of ten."
"The installation is easy."
"The solution can scale quite well."
"We deploy our core application and our integration platform on AWS EC2 instances. These applications contain multiple containerized Python Django applications, which need to scale up and down dynamically."
"The documentation is very good."
"Easy to access and secure, two important features."
"In general, the cost management in Amazon is complicated. It's not too straightforward."
"AWS has large community support."
"I like the technical support."
"The most valuable feature is the backup ability. Most people are used to one type of backup solution that they're using, but most of these solutions have features that make it difficult to transfer to the cloud. I know that Veeam now gives people the opportunity to backup some on-premises solutions to the cloud. This feature is something that a lot of people are looking for."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The user interface is very good and easy to navigate."
"Its initial setup process is easy."
"The most valuable feature I like is about the realtime. Updates are also very fast."
"It has security rules to control database read/write operations in real-time."
"What I like most about Google Firebase is that it's one of the easier options to host a website or app quickly."
"It is a very stable solution."
"If there's data added to the solution, there's a good record of it so it's easy to track everything."
"A big area for improvement in Alibaba Cloud is its support. Another area for improvement in Alibaba Cloud is SDK-based service because sometimes, the SDKs don't work correctly. Support for API-based services also needs improvement in Alibaba Cloud because, at the moment, it's not that stable."
"The solution should have more integration."
"The majority of the tools and processes, in general, have a lot of room for improvement."
"Users use websites as a tutorial. However, the Alibaba Cloud website has the content, and the scripts are copied from Amazon Web Services. We had received customer feedback where the customer asked us to get formulate original content instead of copying from Amazon Web Services. It’s very odd and awkward."
"The solution needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"Alibaba Cloud has some problems related to latency and connection issues. If you go for a cloud solution provider, you will need to access the Internet, which may result in latency and bandwidth issues, leading to slowness in operations."
"From a performance point of view, Huawei and Azure are faster. Alibaba isn't as good."
"The flexibility of the solution could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see better pricing."
"Accessing apps on AWS via my iPhone is awful."
"Integration with in-house applications could be simplified."
"The pricing is reasonable but there is always room to be better."
"The solution could always be further improved on the commercial side of things. Amazon Web Services are not cheap. It would be ideal if it was less expensive for the customer."
"Identity and access management on AWS could be straightforward."
"When I try to enter the multi-cloud, they provide very poor support. Support is a concern with Amazon."
"The difficulty of the implementation depends on the project. We have a lot of very complicated and complex project which make the implementation more difficult. However, a small project can be very simple to implement. In general, over 90% of the project tend to be complex implementations."
"I would like to have a facility for testing possible scenarios by writing dummy data and then doing different queries."
"Their technical support needs to be enhanced with more support for customers."
"They have discontinued some very valuable features, including the Firebase UI that I used to log in."
"Google Cloud Functions (which is still a BETA version) needs to have more control over the uploaded functions. That is, it needs more options for controlling the functions itself."
"Google Firebase could improve the ability to create our own reports, other than what's available on the dashboard. For example, if we want to customize the report or export the data, this is a large task."
"The solution needs to offer capabilities to work offline. Like Firestore, we should be able to do insertion, updating, and deletion offline."
"There's always room for improvement in every product, and the major improvement that's needed in Google Firebase is its simplification, particularly for unsavvy users or non-technical users. If you're not tech-savvy, it would be very difficult for you to use the functions of the solution and understand its security rules. If you want even non-technical people to find it easy to use Google Firebase, it should be simplified because the difference between screen-derived management and code-derived management isn't complex, so simplification wouldn't be an issue."
"The solution could improve by providing an improved SDK tool and automatic indexing for databases."
