Alibaba Cloud Intl

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HDD · HDD · 25 regions

Alibaba Cloud Intl HDD disk · HDD · in 25 regions, from $4.20/mo for a reference config (100 GiB + 3000 IOPS + 125 MB/s).

Specs & pricing

100G/mo $4.20/100G·mo

CategoryHDD

MediaHDD

Perf modelper_gib

Baseline IOPS100

Max IOPS800

Max throughput40 MB/s

Regions25

Performance model · IOPS and throughput a single disk delivers at various sizes (linear model, capped at the whole-disk ceiling)

Size	Monthly	IOPS	Tput MB/s
100 GiB	$4.20	100	40
500 GiB	$21.00	100	40
1000 GiB	$42.00	100	40

Same category on other clouds

AWS sc1 $1.48/100G·mo · 250 MB/s Vultr hdd $2.50/100G·mo · 100 MB/s Azure StandardHDD $2.91/100G·mo · 500 MB/s Huawei Cloud SATA $3.56/100G·mo · 50 MB/s Alibaba Cloud cloud $3.56/100G·mo · 40 MB/s Huawei Cloud Intl SATA $3.68/100G·mo · 50 MB/s Google Cloud pd-standard $4.00/100G·mo · 400 MB/s

UCloud DataDisk $4.45/100G·mo · 100 MB/s

Price by region

		IOPS	Tput MB/s
🇨🇳 Qingdao cn-qingdao	$4.20	—	40
🇬🇧 London eu-west-1	$4.60	—	40
🇵🇭 Manila ap-southeast-6	$4.60	—	40
🇸🇬 Singapore ap-southeast-1	$4.60	—	40
🇨🇳 Shenzhen cn-shenzhen	$4.60	—	40
🇹🇭 Bangkok ap-southeast-7	$4.60	—	40
🇨🇳 Heyuan cn-heyuan	$4.60	—	40
🇯🇵 Tokyo ap-northeast-1	$4.60	—	40
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur ap-southeast-3	$4.60	—	40
🇩🇪 Frankfurt eu-central-1	$4.60	—	40
🇨🇳 Zhangjiakou cn-zhangjiakou	$4.60	—	40
🇨🇳 Chengdu cn-chengdu	$4.60	—	40
🇸🇦 Riyadh me-central-1	$4.60	—	40
🇨🇳 Shanghai cn-shanghai	$4.60	—	40
🇦🇪 Dubai me-east-1	$4.60	—	40
🇨🇳 Hohhot cn-huhehaote	$4.60	—	40
🇨🇳 Hangzhou cn-hangzhou	$4.60	—	40
🇨🇳 Beijing cn-beijing	$4.60	—	40
🇨🇳 Guangzhou cn-guangzhou	$4.60	—	40
🇰🇷 Seoul ap-northeast-2	$4.60	—	40
🇨🇳 Ulanqab cn-wulanchabu	$4.60	—	40
🇮🇩 Jakarta ap-southeast-5	$4.60	—	40
🇨🇳 Hong Kong cn-hongkong	$5.80	—	40
🇺🇸 Silicon Valley us-west-1	$7.70	—	40
🇺🇸 N. Virginia us-east-1	$7.70	—	40

Price is the monthly cost of a 100 GiB disk = on-demand $/GiB·month × 100, the lowest across regions, normalized to USD. IOPS/throughput are estimated from each vendor's published linear model — verify officially.

FAQ

How much does cloud cost on Alibaba Cloud Intl?

cloud starts at about $0.0420/GiB·month, the cheapest of its 25 regions. A 100 GiB volume is roughly $4.2000/month.

What IOPS and throughput does cloud deliver?

At 500 GiB it delivers about 100 IOPS and 40 MBps. See the performance table above for 100 / 500 / 1000 GiB.

Is cloud cheaper on another cloud?

The cheapest same-category disk elsewhere is AWS sc1 at $0.0148/GiB·month. See the full list above.