Dedicated Host
Alibaba Cloud’s Dedicated Host provides physical servers reserved exclusively for your workloads, distinct from standard shared virtual machines. It handles compute-intensive tasks requiring consistent performance and strict security isolation, leveraging scalable infrastructure managed by the provider. This setup ensures high performance for applications needing dedicated hardware resources without the noise of neighboring tenants on shared nodes.
This model suits enterprises needing compliance or specific hardware control, but it lacks a free tier for testing. You pay exclusively via a pay-as-you-go model, meaning costs accrue immediately upon provisioning. There is no trial period to evaluate performance or fit, so budgeting must account for full operational expenses from the first hour of usage.
- Free tier No
- Pricing Pay as you go
- Regions 8 · 4 continents
- SLA uptime 99.99%
- Compliance 10 certifications
- Provider health A
Decision score
Computed from catalog breadth, pricing, provider reliability (uptime & SLA), community signal, and ecosystem (compliance & regions). Weighted equally.
Capabilities
- Scalable
- High Performance
- Secure
- Managed
Pricing structure Pay-as-you-go
Trust & reach via Alibaba Cloud
- C5
- CSA STAR
- FedRAMP
- GDPR
- HIPAA
- ISO 27001
- ISO 27017
- ISO 27018
- ISO 9001
- PCI DSS
- SOC 1 Type II
- SOC 2 Type II
- compute99.95%
- database99.95%
- networking99.95%
- storage99.99%
8 regions across 4 continents
- Asia
- Europe
- North America
- Oceania