Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute

What Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute is

Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute is a cloud data platform with separate storage and compute, data lake support and streaming ingestion. It also supports in-database machine learning. The listed subscription option for standard computing resources costs $22 a month and has a minimum purchase of 50 CUs. Multi-zone high-availability computing resources are listed at $28.60 a month on subscription. For elastic capacity, reserved CUs are listed at $0.05 a month, billed hourly, with scheduled scaling and pay-as-you-go billing. Auto-elastic CUs are listed at $0.06 a month and billed hourly; usage is monitored per second, with automatic scaling and charges for resources consumed. The service is web-based and cloud-deployed. Its listed pricing includes subscription compute choices as well as hourly elastic options, giving prospective users distinct ways to provision compute. A minimum purchase applies to the standard computing resources option, so that condition is important when considering that plan.