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Packet vs Aliyun: What are the differences?
What is Packet? The Leading Bare Metal Cloud for Developers. Deploy screaming fast dedicated servers in under 10 minutes via portal, API, or common cloud orchestration tools. No hypervisor, modern IPv6 network, and hourly pricing.
What is Aliyun? Scalable platforms for cloud computing & data management. It offers reliable and secure cloud computing services and solutions at competitive prices.
Packet and Aliyun can be categorized as "Cloud Hosting" tools.
Some of the features offered by Packet are:
- Premium configs, always available
- Fully dedicated, no hypervisors
- Deploy in less than 10 minutes
On the other hand, Aliyun provides the following key features:
- Secure, scalable, and high-performing virtual servers
- Fast application creation and simple management
- Powerful parallel computing capabilities
Shimo, Asellion B.V., and PJDaren are some of the popular companies that use Aliyun, whereas Packet is used by HashiCorp, Grafana, and DNSFilter. Aliyun has a broader approval, being mentioned in 22 company stacks & 14 developers stacks; compared to Packet, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 19 developer stacks.
Pros of Aliyun
Pros of Equinix Metal
- Great performance3
- No multi tenancy3
- Fantastic customer support2