--- description: Review of Alibaba Cloud Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Alibaba Cloud | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice AU --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [IaaS Software](/directory/4603/iaas-solutions/software) > [Alibaba Cloud](/software/185872/alibaba-cloud) # Alibaba Cloud Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/185872/alibaba-cloud Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/185872/alibaba-cloud?page=2) > Alibaba Cloud is an integrated suite for cloud computing, data storage, web hosting migration, cross-region networking, IoT, data warehousing, application services and more. It provides a content delivery network (CDN), which enables businesses to accelerate file distribution across hybrid or dynamic sites and applications using caching, intelligent routing, data compression and layered communication protocols. With Alibaba SMS service, developers can send one-time passwords, transactional messages, and push notifications to clients in real-time. Alibaba Cloud allows businesses to store, backup and migrate high volumes of data in cloud servers and ensure security through multi-factor authentication, ransomware protection, data encryption, remote disaster recovery and more. Alibaba Cloud is an artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled platform, which lets businesses automate data mining and analysis processes in the cloud. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via email, phone, documentation and other online measures. > > Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 15 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 15 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Alibaba ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Alibaba is available on subscriptions and pay-as-you-go basis. It also offers a free trial. Please contact Alibaba Cloud directly for pricing information. - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Alerts/Escalation - Alerts/Notifications - Application Management - Audit Management - Authentication - Automatic Backup - Backup and Recovery - Cloud Computing - Configurable Workflow - Configuration Management - Data Capture and Transfer - Data Migration - Data Security - Data Storage Management - Data Visualization - Database Support - Encryption - File Management ## Integrations (1 total) - Terraform ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support ## Category - [IaaS Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4603/iaas-solutions/software) ## Related Categories - [IaaS Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4603/iaas-solutions/software) - [Cloud Storage Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4231/cloud-storage/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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[Amazon EC2](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/390324/amazon-ec2) — 4.7/5 (173 reviews) ## Reviews ### "Trustworthy" — 4.0/5 > **Owusu** | *24 August 2023* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Business with Alibaba cloud so far, l have learned a lot from the management and they make sure you understand everything. > > **Cons**: When I contact Alibaba cloud management first time I thought it is the same as other website but I was wrong. > > Alibaba cloud is a website that teach you a lot of things ----- ### "Alibaba Cloud - Affordable and Value for Money Cloud Storage" — 4.0/5 > **Vinay K** | *11 February 2023* | Media Production | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Free Full Feature TrialFlexible Billing OptionsMulti-lingual user interfaceEasy to get started > > **Cons**: Customer SupportHosting OptionsControl Panel > > We used Alibaba as our company's cloud backup across all the global locations. ----- ### "Alibaba cloud services experience" — 3.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *10 November 2022* | Computer & Network Security | Recommendation rating: 2.0/10 > > **Pros**: Their prices are a bit lower compared to other cloud solutions services providers > > **Cons**: I was attracted to the solution by the price but allot has to be done on features and functionalities to get it to other services standard > > Their free trial is not free since it will be billed and one you enter your card details its quite difficult to remove the same, to use it you will be the one to do the hole setup yet they don't offer support if you happen to create a free account deleting it is not possible until they bill you for the same ----- ### "Alibaba cloud learning platform wonders" — 4.0/5 > **Evandro Cláudio** | *1 November 2024* | Accounting | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: The learning platform there is great and accessable. > > **Cons**: In order to use the services you have to study there business in order to work with the infrastructure. > > I started learning the core structure of how the cloud system there work's and it's been very informative and useful and I will keep learning in order to work with the platform someday. ----- ### "IaaS Management Using Alibaba Cloud For Our Enterprise Cloud Requirements" — 4.0/5 > **Raamnaaraayan** | *17 March 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: 1. Alibaba Cloud offers high availability for our instances as they are predominant with multiple availability zones. 2. It offers elasticity for meeting up with our business requirements in which it can provision multiple computational servers in any region and optimize its automation and performance. 3. The SLA commitment of Alibaba Cloud is 99.975% which gives us reliability for individual and multi-zonal instances. 4. All backups are taken through snapshots and we can establish its lifecycle policies to retain them as per our needs. > > **Cons**: Alibaba Cloud is emerging cloud service platform. When compared with other cloud service providers such as AWS \& Azure, the learning curve is more and implementation through community support is less for Alibaba Cloud business use cases. > > 1\. Alibaba Cloud provisions Object Storage Service (OSS) for managing our enterprise storage requirements through its scalability, durability and performance features. 2. It effectively integrates well with CDN distributions for secured transfer and cost-effective implementations. 3. It offers hybrid backup recovery feature for efficient backup \& recovery management and enhances data deduplication with high data security. 4. Archiving these customer data is also straightforward \& follows enhanced compression protocols for cost-effective practices and easy to maintain our historical records \& cold data. ----- Page: 1 / 2\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/185872/alibaba-cloud?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/185872/alibaba-cloud) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data