Alibaba Cloud · Compute

CloudBox

Alibaba Cloud’s CloudBox delivers fully managed infrastructure that runs locally within your own data center. It handles the heavy lifting of deploying and maintaining Alibaba Cloud services on-premises, effectively extending the public cloud environment into your private facility. This setup allows you to leverage cloud-native capabilities while keeping data and workloads physically close to your existing systems.

This approach suits enterprises needing strict data residency or low-latency access to cloud resources without moving everything to a public region. The main friction point is the lack of a free tier, meaning you start paying immediately under the pay-as-you-go model. There is no trial period to test the deployment, so budgeting must account for costs from the moment you provision the hardware.

• Free tier No
• Pricing Pay as you go
• Regions 8 · 4 continents
• SLA uptime 99.99%
• Compliance 10 certifications
• Provider health A