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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.

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    What is Aliyun?

    It offers reliable and secure cloud computing services and solutions at competitive prices.

    What is Equinix Metal?

    As part of Equinix — the world’s digital infrastructure company — we provide automated & interconnected infrastructure. Formerly Packet, now Equinix Metal™.

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    What are some alternatives to Aliyun and Equinix Metal?
    Amazon EC2
    It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
    Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    It is a comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.
    Google Cloud Platform
    It helps you build what's next with secure infrastructure, developer tools, APIs, data analytics and machine learning. It is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube.
    Microsoft Azure
    Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.
    DigitalOcean
    We take the complexities out of cloud hosting by offering blazing fast, on-demand SSD cloud servers, straightforward pricing, a simple API, and an easy-to-use control panel.
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