Alibaba Cloud VPN Gateway vs OpenVPN CloudConnexa

Alibaba Cloud VPN Gateway carries encrypted traffic between Alibaba Cloud VPCs and enterprise data centers, office networks, or Internet platforms over the Internet. It supports site-to-site networking and hybrid access through IPsec, IKE, and SSL VPN connections. Customers manage it through a visual console, API, or SDK, with integrations including ECS, VPC, NAT Gateway, RDS, and SLB. IPsec-VPN and SSL-VPN encrypt data in transit; SSL-VPN offers AES-128-CBC, AES-192-CBC, and AES-256-CBC, with AES-128-CBC as default. Alibaba Cloud describes hot-standby failover in less than a few seconds, session continuity, and zero service downtime. Standard bandwidth reaches 1,000 Mbps total inbound and outbound, or 500 Mbps in some regions. Listed platforms include Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS through IPsec. Pricing is paid, with a $0.06 a month Chinese-mainland 10 Mbps connection and a $0.05 a month five-client SSL specification.

OpenVPN CloudConnexa is a cloud-managed networking service for connecting users, devices and sites through an overlay network. It supports OpenVPN and IPsec, site-to-site networking and split tunneling. Administrators manage access through a unified console with granular policies, audit logs and device posture controls. Security features include web filtering, intrusion detection and prevention, and threat defense. Identity options include LDAP, SAML and SCIM, with availability varying by plan; a public API and Terraform are listed for automation. CloudConnexa is fully cloud-based and managed by OpenVPN. Its overlay network has no default internet connection, so an Internet Gateway is required for internet access. Starter includes up to five seats, and each active user or connector uses one seat. Essential is $7 a month per seat and Premium is $9.50 a month per seat. Essential and Premium have a 14-day trial; charging begins only if a payment method was entered.