Alibaba Cloud Compute

Elastic Desktop Service (EDS)

Alibaba Cloud’s Elastic Desktop Service delivers cloud-hosted desktop environments, handling the underlying compute infrastructure for remote work setups. It manages the provisioning and maintenance of virtual desktops, offering a pay-as-you-go model that scales with active usage rather than fixed capacity commitments.

This setup suits teams needing managed remote access without maintaining local hardware, though the lack of a free tier means costs start immediately upon deployment. You pay strictly for what you use, which eliminates upfront hardware investments but requires careful budgeting for continuous operational expenses since there is no trial period to test the service.

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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.

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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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