Alibaba Cloud (Chinese: ???; pinyin: ?l? yún; literally: Ali Cloud; formerly: Aliyun), a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, is a global cloud computing company headquartered in Hangzhou. Alibaba Cloud provides a suite of cloud computing services that covers elastic computing, object storage, relational database, big data analysis, and artificial intelligence in fifteen geographical regions around the globe. Established in September 2009, Alibaba Cloud began as a private cloud to serve the internal demands of Alibaba's e-commerce businesses, including Taobao, Tmall, and Alipay.
Alibaba Cloud is the largest cloud computing company in China, with data centers across six regions within mainland China. Alibaba Cloud also operates in eight geographical regions around the globe, with two new data center locations expected to launch.
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History
- September 2009 - Alibaba Cloud is founded and R&D centers and operation centers are subsequently opened in Hangzhou, Beijing, and Silicon Valley.
- November 2010 - Supported the first Single's Day (11.11) Taobao shopping festival, with 2.4 billion PV in 24 hours.
- November 2012 - Became the first Chinese cloud service provider to pass ISO2700:2005 (Information Security Management System).
- January 2013 - Merged with HiChina for www.net.cn business.
- August 2013 - ApsaraDB architecture supported 5000 physical machines in a single cluster.
- December 2014 - Defended a 14-hour long DDoS attack, peaking at 453.8Gbps.
- May 2014 - Hong Kong data center went online.
- October 2015 - Two US data centers went online.
- July 2015 - Alibaba Group invested a further 1 billion USD to Alibaba Cloud.
- August 2015 - Alibaba Cloud's first Singapore data center opened. Singapore is announced as Alibaba Cloud's overseas headquarters.
- October 2015 - MaxCompute took the lead of the Sort Benchmark, sorting 100TB data in 377s compared with Apache Spark's previous record of 1406s.
- October 2015 - Alibaba Cloud Computing Conference was held in Hangzhou and attracted over 20,000 developers.
- November 2015 - Supported the 11.11 shopping festival with a record of $14.2 billion transactions in 24 hours.
- April 2016 - Alibaba Cloud partnered with SK Holdings C&C to provide cloud services to Korean and Chinese companies.
- May 2016 - Alibaba Group and SoftBank formalized joint venture to launch cloud services in Japan that utilize technologies and solutions from Alibaba Cloud.
- June 2016 - Alibaba Cloud expanded its data center operations in Singapore with the establishment of a second availability zone. Alibaba Cloud also achieved two new certifications overseas: Singapore Multi-Tier Cloud Security (MTCS) standard Level 3, and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS).
- January 2017 - Alibaba became the official cloud services provider of the Olympics.
- June 2017 - Alibaba Cloud is placed in the Visionaries quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide.
- July 2017 - Alibaba Cloud official website is changed from intl.aliyun.com to www.alibabacloud.com.
- September 2017 - Alibaba Cloud partners with Malaysia's Fusionex to provide cloud solutions in Southeast Asia.
- October 2017 - Alibaba Cloud partners with Elastic and launches a new service called Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch.
- October 2017 - Alibaba Cloud Malaysia data center commences operations.
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Data Center Locations
Alibaba Cloud has 7 data centers in Mainland China and 9 data centers globally, including Hangzhou, Beijing, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Silicon Valley, Frankfurt, Dubai, Tokyo, and Sydney. Two additional data center locations are expected to open in 2018, located in Indonesia and India.
Alibaba Cloud has data centers located in the following regions:
Products
Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, including services such as e-commerce, big data, IoT, and data customization.
References
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