We performed a comparison between Alibaba Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) 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)."The installation is easy."
"It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."
"Feature-wise, it provides many features. ECS, VM, SP, bucket object storage, and databases are the most valuable."
"It is easy to set up."
"It is a scalable product. So, scaling up or scaling down is possible."
"We use the solution to run VMs."
"What's good about Alibaba Cloud is its database service. It's also good in the virtual machine area."
"We use the product for storage and as a VPN."
"The simple infrastructure of the service is very useful."
"The most valuable features of Oracle Cloud are the ease of navigation and stability. The solution is more feature-rich and powerful than these smaller alternatives."
"Our recommendations are good, and we also have a bidding platform that is helpful for managed service providers. This platform can save customers up to 2-3 weeks in billing time, from 25 days to 3-4 days. We have two products: a basic product and a cloud optimization product. Both products help customers improve the performance and cost-efficiency of their cloud environments."
"Just having the many options and features offered by the product through the cloud is a major benefit."
"I find the Single Sign-On, SSO, feature to be valuable."
"The pricing isn't too bad."
"The most valuable part of the Oracle Cloud Platform is the ability to develop applications that help us migrate information from on-prem to the cloud."
"OCI's best features are its price, databases, and Linux compatibility."
"The solution should have more integration."
"It is not robust."
"The solution name is not favorable in some markets and could cause us some problems gaining customers."
"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."
"The flexibility of the solution could be improved."
"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 user experience must be improved."
"Oracle support could be better; we had cases where certain regions experienced specific issues and received little help from Oracle."
"More technical papers could be published to help out professionals."
"The configuration through the cloud is complicated. It's not straightforward."
"I work with many clouds and I would say, in comparison, others have a better presentation of services and they have clearer steps in terms of implementation."
"Since our Oracle products are on premise we cannot get the premier Oracle products."
"The framework from AWS is so good, I would like to see this feature in OCI."
"This service is very specific to Oracle and we cannot have other types of workloads on Oracle Cloud."
"Database instances and computer storage are areas with shortcomings in the product that need improvement."
More Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Pricing and Cost Advice →
Alibaba Cloud is ranked 9th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 15 reviews while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is ranked 3rd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 91 reviews. Alibaba Cloud is rated 7.2, while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is rated 7.8. 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 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) writes "Cost-effective and can be used to host OIC and APEX". Alibaba Cloud is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon AWS, Google Firebase and DigitalOcean, whereas Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Public Cloud and Google Firebase.
See our list of best Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) vendors.
We monitor all Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
