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."We use the solution to run VMs."
"It's easy to use, cheaper than other solutions, and more secure."
"ECS is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The cost of hosting the solution is very reasonable. It's quite inexpensive."
"We use the product for storage and as a VPN."
"It is easy to set up."
"The installation is easy."
"Alibaba support is responsive. When we create tickets in the Alibaba portal, they usually respond online or call me in five minutes."
"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 solution is easy to set up."
"The most valuable feature is the ease with which you can create a phishing server and use it."
"The solution is very stable."
"The customer support team are very responsive."
"The user interface is nice, and it is very easy to use. Anyone can use it."
"I like Kubernetes integration."
"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 support offered by the tool is ridiculous."
"From a performance point of view, Huawei and Azure are faster. Alibaba isn't as good."
"Alibaba Cloud's initial setup is somewhat complex."
"It is not robust."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We found the solution to be a bit expensive."
"I think something needs to be done in terms of technical support."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having integration with GitHub."
"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"
"The technical support for this solution could be improved."
Alibaba Cloud is ranked 9th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 17 reviews while DigitalOcean is ranked 12th in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 9 reviews. Alibaba Cloud is rated 7.4, 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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