Alibaba Cloud Philippines Lightweight Application Server Review: Unlocks TikTok/AI, Suitable for China Mobile Users

This article shares the detailed review data of Alibaba Cloud's Simple Application Server (SAS) in the Manila, Philippines data center. To briefly summarize: it unlocks TikTok, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, etc. Powered by Intel Xeon Platinum, the UnixBench test shows a single-core score of 1230 and a dual-core score of 2031, which is quite decent. In the FIO test with 4K block size, the read speed is 6.8 MB/s, write speed is 6.81 MB/s, and both read/write IOPS are 1.7K. From the data, it is obvious that Alibaba Cloud has heavily restricted individual VMs.

Official Website: https://www.aliyun.com/product/swas

The CPU used by the server is Intel Xeon Platinum (exact model unknown) with a main frequency of 2.5GHz. The underlying virtualization is KVM. BBR has been enabled, and IPv6 is not supported. It runs on Alibaba Cloud's own network, located in Manila, Philippines. The current actual I/O test is approximately 149.7 MB/s:

FIO test with 4K block size: read speed is 6.8 MB/s, write speed is 6.81 MB/s, and both read/write IOPS are 1.7K. From the data, it is obvious that Alibaba Cloud has heavily restricted individual VMs.

IPERF3 test, the upload and download data performance of some international nodes are as follows:

Streaming media unlocking status: Claude, Gemini, and Steam currency can be successfully unlocked.

UnixBench test: single-core score is 1230, dual-core score is 2031, which is quite decent.