Here is a compilation of various cloud services provided by Alibaba Cloud against other vendors' products available. The products listed here are the most fundamental verticals which every beginner in Alibaba Cloud needs to know when they start from scratch or migrate from other cloud providers.
| S.No | Alibaba Cloud | Vendor 1 | Vendor 2 | Vendor 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elastic Compute Service | Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) | Virtual Machine | Compute Engine |
| 2 | Elastic Container Instance | Elastic Container Service | Container Apps | Kubernetes Engine |
| 3 | Object Storage Service | Simple Storage Service (S3) | Blob Storage | Cloud Storage |
| 4 | Elastic Block Storage | Elastic Block Storage | Managed Disk | Persistent Disk |
| 5 | Relational Database Service | Relational Database Service | SQL Database | Cloud SQL |
| 6 | PolarDB | Aurora | Azure SQL Database Serverless | Cloud Spanner |
| 7 | Content Delivery Network | Cloudfront | CDN | Cloud CDN |
| 8 | Virtual Private Cloud | Virtual Private Cloud | Front Door | Virtual Private Cloud |
| 9 | Cloud Enterprise Network | Transit Gateway | Gateway Transit | Networking Connectivity Center |
| 10 | Domain Name system (DNS) | Route 53 | Traffic Manager | Cloud DNS |
| 11 | Server Load Balancing | Elastic Load Balancing | Load Balancing | Cloud Load Balancing |
| 12 | Action Trail | Cloud Trail | Activity Log | Cloud Audit Logs |
| 13 | Cloud Monitor | Cloud Watch | Application Insights | Cloud Monitoring |
| 14 | Resource Access Management (RAM) | Identity and Access Management (IAM) | Azure Role-Based Access Control | Identity and Access Management (IAM) |
| 15 | Function Compute | Lambda | Functions | Cloud Functions |
| 16 | Web Application Firewall | Web Application Firewall | Web Application Firewall | Cloud Armor |
| 17 | Express Connect | Direct Connect | Express Route | Dedicated Interconnect |
| 18 | VPN Gateway | Site-to-site VPN | VPN Gateway | Cloud VPN |
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