Alibaba Cloud Compute

Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK)

Alibaba Cloud’s Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) provides managed infrastructure for running and scaling containerized applications. It handles the underlying Kubernetes control plane, letting you deploy workloads without maintaining the master nodes yourself. This setup abstracts away the complexity of cluster management while keeping you on standard Kubernetes APIs.

The service suits teams already operating within the Alibaba Cloud ecosystem who need managed Kubernetes without building their own control planes. However, there is no free tier available. You pay strictly on a pay-as-you-go basis from the moment you provision resources, which means any development or testing clusters incur immediate costs.

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

Decision score

38 /100
Features 20
Pricing 0
Reliability 100
Community 0
Ecosystem 86

Computed from catalog breadth, pricing, provider reliability (uptime & SLA), community signal, and ecosystem (compliance & regions). Weighted equally.

Trust & reach via Alibaba Cloud

Compliance
  • C5
  • CSA STAR
  • FedRAMP
  • GDPR
  • HIPAA
  • ISO 27001
  • ISO 27017
  • ISO 27018
  • ISO 9001
  • PCI DSS
  • SOC 1 Type II
  • SOC 2 Type II
+1 more
SLA uptime
  • compute99.95%
  • database99.95%
  • networking99.95%
  • storage99.99%
Global reach

8 regions across 4 continents

  • Asia
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Oceania

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