Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU Service vs. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU Service
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU Service (EGS) is a GPU-based computing service for scenarios such as deep learning, video processing, scientific computing, and visualization. EGS solutions use the following GPUs: AMD FirePro S7150, NVIDIA Tesla M40, NVIDIA Tesla P100, NVIDIA Tesla P4, and NVIDIA Tesla V100.N/A
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and run images on multiple systems.
$0.01
per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis
Pricing
Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU ServiceAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Editions & Modules
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Data Transfer
$0.00 - $0.09
per GB
On-Demand
$0.0042 - $6.528
per Hour
EBS-Optimized Instances
$0.005
per IP address with a running instance per hour on a pro rata basis
Carrier IP Addresses
$0.005 - $0.10
T4g Instances
$0.04
per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES
T2, T3 Instances
$0.05 ($0.096)
per vCPU-Hour Linux, RHEL, & SLES (Windows)
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU ServiceAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Top Cons

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Features
Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU ServiceAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU Service
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Ratings
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
9.1
18 Ratings
11% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings8.717 Ratings
Dynamic scaling00 Ratings9.317 Ratings
Elastic load balancing00 Ratings9.217 Ratings
Pre-configured templates00 Ratings9.517 Ratings
Monitoring tools00 Ratings8.217 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings9.817 Ratings
Operating system support00 Ratings9.617 Ratings
Security controls00 Ratings9.617 Ratings
Automation00 Ratings8.37 Ratings
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User Ratings
Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU ServiceAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Likelihood to Recommend
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(0 ratings)
8.5
(65 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(12 ratings)
User Testimonials
Alibaba Cloud Elastic GPU ServiceAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Likelihood to Recommend
Alibaba Cloud
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Amazon AWS
I think nowadays, Amazon EC2 is best-suited for most app development and deployment use cases, especially if your resource requirements are not fixed over a long period of time. The flexibility provided by the on-demand pricing and rescaling option makes Amazon EC2 a great service, especially if your tech stack already runs on AWS. On the other hand, I think Amazon EC2 is not the best option if your tech infrastructure runs on another public cloud.
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Pros
Alibaba Cloud
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Amazon AWS
  • A great variety of choices in Amazon Machine Image (AMI) types. Users can select a more basic type to run generic workloads, but also have the choice to pick an AMI pre-installed with specific services in the AWS Marketplace.
  • The range of instance types can support the usage from a student's exploration (inexpensive general-purpose nano instances) to an enterprise's most intense workloads (memory or storage-optimized instances with terabytes of memory and ultra-fast network connection).
  • The pricing options, from regular instances, reserved instances to spot instances allow users to get the job done and make smart choices about how much they want to pay and when they want to pay.
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Cons
Alibaba Cloud
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Amazon AWS
  • This service is a bit difficult to consume. New users need a big learning curve to use this service effectively.
  • UI for EC2 service is a little complex and at many places, it misses detailed explanation.
  • Sometimes it takes too long to create images of EC2 instances. This keeps your EC2 up for that extra time. When instances are heavy, it penalizes a lot of money.
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Usability
Alibaba Cloud
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Amazon AWS
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) allows various ways of gaining incidents, such as slow growth, money, and the reserved ones, mostly depend entirely on the necessity, because it makes highly intelligent choices possible at these times, which enable considerable cost savings whilst addressing the situation as best I like.
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Support Rating
Alibaba Cloud
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Amazon AWS
AWS's support is good overall. Not outstanding, but better than average. We have had very little reason to engage with AWS support but in our limited experience, the staff has been knowledgeable, timely and helpful. The only negative is actually initiating a service request can be a bit of a pain.
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Alternatives Considered
Alibaba Cloud
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Amazon AWS
Azure VM and Google Compute Engine are alternatives to EC2. AWS EC2 is most matures and advanced of the 3. All these provide easy-to-deploy and automatically configured third-party applications, including single virtual machine or multiple virtual machine solutions.
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Return on Investment
Alibaba Cloud
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Amazon AWS
  • AWS has had a very positive return on investment for every client we have that uses it. They are saving money in the long run.
  • AWS includes the underlying operating system licenses with their EC2 instances so no longer do we have to navigate through Microsoft licensing headache.
  • EC2 allows us to easily create a golden image of servers and store them as AMIs. This makes spinning up new servers that need a particular set of software in the future extremely easy and cost-effective.
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