Alibaba · 17 regions
Alibaba ping test: measure latency to every Alibaba Cloud region
A free Alibaba ping test. Measure real latency from your browser to 17 Alibaba Cloud regions and find the ones closest to you.
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Closest cloud regions
The 3 closest regions of each provider. Closer is usually faster, but routing can beat geography, so once measured they re-rank by latency.
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Ping cloud regions
Choose which providers and places to measure.
17 regions selected
Cloud latency results
Nothing measured yet. Test the regions nearest to you, or pick some above and press Test.
Past ping tests
Finished runs are saved in this browser. Pick one later to see how each region changed.
How a cloud ping test works
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Locate
Your IP (or, if you allow it, your browser's location) tells us which regions are physically closest to you.
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Measure
Your browser sends HTTPS requests straight to each region. The first one sets up the connection; the rest measure round-trip time.
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Compare
Regions are ranked by median latency. Runs are saved in this browser so you can compare networks, places and times of day.
Alibaba ping test FAQ
How latency is measured, which clouds are included, and what stays in your browser.
How does the Alibaba ping test work?
Cloud Ping sends HTTPS requests from your browser to Alibaba Cloud's public regional endpoints (OSS regional endpoint). It reports median latency, jitter and failed samples for each of the 17 Alibaba regions in the catalog.
Which Alibaba region is closest to me?
Cloud Ping lists the Alibaba regions nearest to your approximate location, then re-ranks them by measured latency once a test finishes. The lowest median latency is the Alibaba region that is fastest from your network right now.
Which cloud providers can I ping?
Cloud Ping measures 8 providers and 205 regions: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, DigitalOcean, Akamai / Linode, Vultr. You can test all of them, or open a provider page to ping only that cloud.
How is a cloud ping test different from a speed test?
A speed test measures download and upload bandwidth to one nearby server. Cloud Ping measures latency (round-trip time) to many cloud regions, so you can choose where to run workloads, not how fast a single file downloads.
Does Cloud Ping store my IP address or results?
Your IP is used only to guess nearby regions. Precise location is optional and stays in the browser. Finished runs are saved in this browser so you can compare networks and times of day; they are not uploaded to Cloud Ping.
Why is a closer cloud region sometimes slower?
Physical distance is a strong hint, but internet routing, congested paths, and the endpoint we probe can make a farther region faster. That is why Cloud Ping re-ranks regions by measured latency after a test, not by map distance alone.
Alibaba regions Cloud Ping measures
17 Alibaba Cloud endpoints. Latency is measured against OSS regional endpoint.
| Region | City | Country | Continent |
|---|---|---|---|
| us-west-1 | Silicon Valley | US | North America |
| us-east-1 | Virginia | US | North America |
| eu-central-1 | Frankfurt | DE | Europe |
| eu-west-1 | London | GB | Europe |
| cn-hangzhou | Hangzhou | CN | Asia |
| cn-shanghai | Shanghai | CN | Asia |
| cn-beijing | Beijing | CN | Asia |
| cn-shenzhen | Shenzhen | CN | Asia |
| cn-hongkong | Hong Kong | HK | Asia |
| ap-northeast-1 | Tokyo | JP | Asia |
| ap-northeast-2 | Seoul | KR | Asia |
| ap-southeast-1 | Singapore | SG | Asia |
| ap-southeast-3 | Kuala Lumpur | MY | Asia |
| ap-southeast-5 | Jakarta | ID | Asia |
| ap-southeast-6 | Manila | PH | Asia |
| ap-southeast-7 | Bangkok | TH | Asia |
| me-east-1 | Dubai | AE | Middle East |
Cloud Ping also measures the other 188 regions across 7 providers on the main cloud ping test.