Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud
Type of site	Subsidiary
Key people	Jack Ma (Executive Chairman); Daniel Zhang (President);
Industry	Cloud Computing, Web Services
Parent	Alibaba Group
URL	www.alibabacloud.com
Launched	September 2009
Current status	Active

Alibaba Cloud, also known as Aliyun (Chinese: 阿里云; pinyin: Ālǐyún; lit. 'Ali Cloud'), is a cloud computing company, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group. Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing services to online businesses and Alibaba's own e-commerce ecosystem. Its international operations are registered and headquartered in Singapore.^[1]

Alibaba Cloud offers cloud services that are available on a pay-as-you-go basis, and include elastic compute, data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, anti-DDoS protection and content delivery networks (CDN).

It is the largest cloud computing company in China,^[2] and in Asia Pacific according to Gartner.^[3] Alibaba Cloud operates data centers in 24 regions and 74 availability zones around the globe.^[4] As of June 2017, Alibaba Cloud is placed in the Visionaries' quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for cloud infrastructure as a service, worldwide.

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[1] Clouder, Alibaba (August 27, 2019). "10 Years of Cloud Intelligence: How Will Alibaba Change the Future of Cloud Computing?". Alibaba Cloud Community. Archived from the original on 2020-11-29. Retrieved 2019-10-31.

[2] Eileen Yu (2017-08-18). "Alibaba's fiscal 2017 revenue climbs 56 percent on cloud, mobile commerce growth | ZDNet". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 2020-10-24. Retrieved 2017-06-20.

[3] "Alibaba Cloud Ranked First in Asia Pacific(*) by Gartner Market Share: IT Services in IaaS and IUS". www.businesswire.com. 2019-04-24. Archived from the original on 2021-06-06. Retrieved 2021-06-06.

[4] "Alibaba Cloud Global Locations". AlibabaCloud. Archived from the original on 2021-06-06. Retrieved 2021-06-06.

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