Alibaba Cloud vs F5 Volterra comparison

Alibaba and F5 are both solutions in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category. Alibaba is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.4, while F5 is ranked #15 with an average rating of 9.0. Alibaba holds a 13.0% mindshare in ISI, compared to F5’s 0.1% mindshare. Additionally, 75% of Alibaba users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of F5 users who would recommend it.

Alibaba Cloud

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75% willing to recommend

F5 Volterra

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Alibaba Cloud

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

8th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

F5 Volterra

Ranking in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)

15th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

3.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) category, the mindshare of Alibaba Cloud is 13.0%, up from 7.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of F5 Volterra is 0.1%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Min HtetOo

Chief Marketing Officer at Soft Intelligence

The solution is useful for application development, but the user interface and user experience must be improved

The product must be made easier to use. The design is a bit tricky. When we log in to the Alibaba Cloud Marketplace and browse products, they look very small. The user experience must be improved. Alibaba Cloud must increase its partner network and brand awareness in our country. It will give our customers more opportunities to scale and save in the long run.

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Ossama ElGedawy

IT Security Senior Manager at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Has integrated protection with effective mitigation of DDoS attacks

The valuable features include its API Security, anti-bot protection, and web application firewall. It has greatly improved the security posture of my applications, web applications, and also effectively mitigates DDoS attacks. Before implementing the DDoS protection on F5 Volterra, there were about three successful DDoS incidents. Afterward, I did not experience a single incident for eight months.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Feature-wise, it provides many features. ECS, VM, SP, bucket object storage, and databases are the most valuable."

"It is a scalable product. So, scaling up or scaling down is possible."

"We use the solution to run VMs."

"ECS is the most valuable feature of the solution."

"The installation is easy."

"I rate Alibaba Cloud's scalability an eight out of ten."

"Alibaba Cloud has lower costs and good support."

"It is easy to set up."

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"The valuable features include its anti-PDUs, anti-bot protection, and web application firewall."

"It has greatly improved the security posture of my applications, web applications, and also effectively mitigates DDoS attacks."

Cons

"From the improvement point of view, there are lots of issues that we are facing. In all the areas, it seems like it is not mature. For example, a customer wants to provision some VM that has many configurations. If I want to show the price to the customer, it is very challenging. The SDK that Alibaba has provided is very limited. We can have the pricing for VM, but we cannot have pricing for RDS databases or some other services. This is a big concern area for us. They should put more effort into the SDKs or APIs that they provide, for example, pricing APIs or pricing SDK. They do not provide support for most of the services they provide. For example, if I want to get the price of MongoDB, that SDK is not available from Alibaba. Similarly, robust API support is required for S3, which is OSS or Object Storage, so that we can read the data in a faster manner, for example, in chunks. We have raised many issues with the Alibaba support team, and they have been fixing the issues after we report them."

"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."

"Alibaba Cloud needs to increase availability in Thailand."

"Regarding security issues, Alibaba Cloud is more complex and better suited for developers and R&D teams. On the other hand, Google Cloud is more convenient for new users."

"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."

"Alibaba Cloud's initial setup is somewhat complex."

"I think that sometimes the customer service for Alibaba Cloud is inefficient.... Sometimes it's hard to reach out to them."

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"The reporting needs improvement in Volterra. I do not have many options to create a customized report."

"The reporting needs improvement in Volterra."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Alibaba Cloud is good. If I was to use Microsoft Azure I would have to pay 30 percent more."

"I'm not sure about the exact pricing, but let's just say if it cost a dollar for Amazon AWS, it was closer to 70 to 80 cents for Alibaba Cloud."

"The cost of Alibaba Cloud is lower than that of AWS, but I feel that its price is on the higher end of the spectrum. Alibaba Cloud charges its users a price in dollars"

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten."

"The cost is better than similar solutions."

"The product is not that expensive."

"The solution's pricing is the same as AWS'."

"Alibaba Cloud is cheaper."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

University

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Company Size

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Alibaba Cloud?

ECS is the most valuable feature of the solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Alibaba Cloud?

On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten.

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What needs improvement with Alibaba Cloud?

Alibaba Cloud needs to improve emails. Its pricing can also be lower. Regarding security issues, Alibaba Cloud is more complex and better suited for developers and R&D teams. On the other hand,...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F5 Volterra?

It is not high and not low. It is a fair price.

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What needs improvement with F5 Volterra?

The reporting needs improvement in Volterra. I do not have many options to create a customized report.

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What is your primary use case for F5 Volterra?

I am hosting about twenty applications. They are behind F5, Volterra.

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Compared 28% of the time

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Overview

Alibaba Cloud offers a comprehensive suite of cloud computing services to support growing enterprises worldwide, including data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, and content delivery networks.

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Volterra is a distributed cloud platform to deploy, connect, secure, and manage applications and data across multiple clouds and at edge locations. Volterra’s global Application Delivery Network (ADN) allows you to secure cloud applications and put critical transactions and workloads closer to end users for a faster and safer digital experience.

Volterra’s solutions solve for:

Multi-Cloud

Consolidate networking, security, and application delivery across cloud providers
Advanced Kubernetes gateway with integrated security and API services across one or more clusters
Globally distributed application gateway to deliver fast performing SaaS apps

Network Cloud

Secure and accelerate private, hybrid or multi-cloud web applications and APIs
Network-hosted workloads to improve end user static and dynamic content experiences
DDoS, advanced security, and IP transit services for private or hybrid clouds

Edge Cloud

Cloud-native compute, storage, network, and security services across edge sites
Secure edge gateway to consolidate SDWAN, security, and API gateways
Volterra’s global network to securely connect distributed edge sites to cloud providers

Volterra assists DevOps and NetOps teams ease operations, security, and performance challenges with two primary products:

VoltMesh™ – SaaS-based offering consolidating networking and security services across cloud and edge sites along with the ability to offload applications to Volterra’s global network.

VoltStack™ – SaaS solution automating deployment, security, and operations of distributed apps and infrastructure across edge, public/private clouds and Volterra’s global application delivery network.

Volterra helps NetOps and DevOps teams improve the performance and security of their critical apps – both modern microservices-based and distributed ones, as well as traditionally designed web apps. Volterra’s architecture and solutions provide the operational simplicity, visibility, and infrastructure abstraction requires by today’s faster IT organizations.

Sample Customers

Schneider Electric, BorderX Lab, Royal Philips, Catchpoint, Conversant, Blogmint

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