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Eye-opening to me was browsing https://eu.alibabacloud.com/ https://eu.alibabacloud.com/ We talk a lot about Google Cloud, AWS, Azure and smaller ones like Digi
by mtmail 6y ago
Eye-opening to me was browsing https://eu.alibabacloud.com/ https://eu.alibabacloud.com/ We talk a lot about Google Cloud, AWS, Azure and smaller ones like Digital Ocean, Linode and such but Alibabacloud I hardly if ever see articles or tutorials about.
- dylz 6y agoHuawei Cloud and a few others are also quite massive, but signup is so insanely difficult (+ "Real Verification" bullshit) that if you're a foreigner you just wouldn't bother.
- nucleardog 6y agoNot that it changes the situation, but in case anyone's not aware that's due to government regulations[0]. You need the same licenses if you want to sign up for AWS's Chinese regions as well. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license
- scarmig 6y agoSignup has some additional friction, but it amounts to taking a photo of your ID and waiting 24 hours. Insanely difficult is overstating it quite a bit.
- _-___________-_ 6y agoPicture AWS with the names of the services slightly changed, a lot more spelling mistakes, and a lot more "something went wrong" when you try to use the console, and you've pretty much got the Alibaba Cloud experience ;)
- chiyc 6y agoI used Alibaba Cloud once for a project on behalf of a China-based customer. The one thing I appreciated most about it was that the service names just describe what they do.
- cachvico 6y agoTencent also - https://intl.cloud.tencent.com/ https://intl.cloud.tencent.com/