We performed a comparison between Alibaba Cloud and DigitalOcean based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is easy to set up."
"Alibaba support is responsive. When we create tickets in the Alibaba portal, they usually respond online or call me in five minutes."
"Alibaba Cloud allows for easy setup of mirror sites and backup servers, ensuring data redundancy and high availability."
"ECS is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"We use the product for storage and as a VPN."
"The most valuable feature of Alibaba Cloud is the communication it allows between two servers."
"The installation is easy."
"It is a scalable product. So, scaling up or scaling down is possible."
"The most outstanding aspect of DigitalOcean is its user interface and ease of use. Compared to more complex solutions, such as AWS, DigitalOcean's platform is highly intuitive and user-friendly."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"It's been a good choice for us for some services. We generally have several deployments. For instance, for some static Angular applications, it was a clear choice to run them on Cloudflare, which performs very well in this context. All the assets go on DigitalOcean."
"The customer support team are very responsive."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"Alibaba Cloud's initial setup is somewhat complex."
"The user experience must be improved."
"The solution needs to improve its graphical user interface."
"The flexibility of the solution could be improved."
"The majority of the tools and processes, in general, have a lot of room for improvement."
"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."
"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."
"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 technical support for this solution could be improved."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"The issue with DigitalOcean is primarily the latency. So, when you have a mixed system with some components staying here, and then we encounter network latency, it's not optimal. Our"
"Other solutions are proving the monitoring feature, like AWS having GuardDuty and SAP having services for logs and monitoring. DigitalOcean doesn’t have any other benefits."
"I would like to see improvements to the logging and user interface. The verification process could be more streamlined."
"I would like to see an automation feature added to send emails out using the open-source solution."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
Alibaba Cloud is ranked 9th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 15 reviews while DigitalOcean is ranked 12th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews. Alibaba Cloud is rated 7.2, while DigitalOcean is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Alibaba Cloud writes "The solution is useful for application development, but the user interface and user experience must be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DigitalOcean writes "Testing new systems is affordable. Backup/snapshots does not always restore properly". Alibaba Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Linode, whereas DigitalOcean is most compared with Amazon AWS, Google Firebase, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and SAP S4HANA on AWS. See our Alibaba Cloud vs. DigitalOcean report.
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