Why Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud are preferred for domestic ECS?

Domestic ECS Why Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud? How to choose? Both Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud have deployed multiple cloud server data centers in China for selection. Why do you mention these two servers every time you choose servers in China? Because from the perspective of technology, strength, stability and speed, these two companies are in the top position in China. Whether individuals or enterprises use ECS, the first need is stability. Only when ECS provides stable services for a long time, can business be carried out normally later.

Stable performance

The difference between Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud is that Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud are particularly stable. They deploy ECS on a large scale to form server clusters, which can effectively provide users with stable services of up to five nines. In case of any problem with the current server, it will switch to the available server in the same region to ensure the smooth operation of the user's business, and provide multi-point redundant backup measures.

After Lao Wei Alibaba Cloud official documents The following guarantees are mentioned in the ECS service level agreement (also called SLA terms) that came into effect on December 1, 2019:

For the single instance dimension, Alibaba Cloud promises that the service availability of ECS in a service cycle will not be less than 99.975%;
For the single region multi zone dimension, Alibaba Cloud promises that the service availability of ECS in a service cycle will not be less than 99.995%.

In addition, compensation plans and standards have been formulated for situations lower than the above availability.

Tencent Cloud has similar SLA Scheme of Service Level Agreement 。

Old Wei has something to say : In fact, what our users want to buy ECS is not to worry about. The official operation and maintenance personnel should worry about the problems related to server stability. We just want to do business quietly with ECS.

Multi line BGP machine room access

Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud both use multi line BGP access to ensure fast access to the mainland and the world. Common domestic broadband businesses such as China Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobile and Education Network have access. Other small broadband providers actually rent bandwidth from these three companies and sell it to users. This ensures that the mainland can access websites, applications and projects on the cloud server at a very fast speed.

The available bandwidth includes 1M~10M. The common bandwidth in activities is 1m, 3m, 5m, 6m, 8m, 10m.

The difference between Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud

Alibaba Cloud is the first to start cloud computing in China, standing at the forefront of technology and leading in research and development. All businesses of our Alibaba Group run on Alibaba Cloud architecture and use Alibaba Cloud servers.

Tencent Cloud is a rising star. Its own social software and online games are also running on Tencent Cloud Server, which uses the architecture of Tencent Cloud Server.

Performance and stability: there is no obvious difference between the two, and both provide very stable services;

Price: AliCloud servers are a little more expensive, while Tencent ECS is much cheaper. However, during the promotional activities, both of them used all means to attract users with low prices.

Common preferential activities

AliCloud Cloud Website: Click me directly Get vouchers and coupons, which can be used for payment to offset part of the amount.

Tencent Cloud: Click me to get it New user vouchers can also be used for payment to save cloud funds.

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At present, Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud are not very different in terms of servers. Just like a car brand, it can be driven away, but the user's starting point, demand point and budget are different, so some people choose this brand and others choose that brand.

If you care about brand reputation and have an adequate budget, you can choose Alibaba Cloud; If you are short of budget and want to build an ECS, consider Tencent Cloud, which is more cost-effective.