Overview
Alibaba Cloud CDN is the content delivery service of Alibaba Group’s cloud division. Alibaba Cloud states that it runs more than 3,200 nodes worldwide in over 70 countries and regions with total capacity exceeding 180 Tbps.[24]
The service supports HTTP/3, HTTPS, origin failover, access control, compression and image processing, real-time and offline log analysis, and automation through OpenAPI, Terraform and EdgeScript, Alibaba’s programmable scripting language for edge rules.[24]
Pay-by-traffic pricing is US$0.04 per GB in the Chinese mainland and US$0.07 per GB in North America and the European Union for the first tier.[25] Outside Asia its rates are higher than the budget specialists’.
Alibaba Cloud features
- 3,200+ nodes in 70+ countries and regions
- HTTP/3 and origin failover
- EdgeScript programmable rules
- Terraform and OpenAPI automation
Alibaba Cloud pricing
Pay-by-traffic first tier: US$0.04/GB (Chinese mainland), US$0.07/GB (North America, EU).
Alibaba Cloud strengths and limitations
Strengths
- Extensive mainland China node coverage
- Prices published in US dollars
- Infrastructure-as-code support
Limitations
- Mainland delivery requires an ICP filing
- Western rates higher than budget CDNs
- Fewer edge-security features bundled than Cloudflare
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