Alibaba Cloud, also known as Aliyun (), is a

cloud computing Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mu ...

company, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group. Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing services to online businesses and Alibaba's own

e-commerce E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain managem ...

ecosystem. Its international operations are registered and headquartered in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

. 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 network A content delivery network, or content distribution network (CDN), is a geographically distributed network of proxy servers and their data centers. The goal is to provide high availability and performance by distributing the service spatially rel ...

s (CDN). It is the largest cloud computing company in China, and in Asia Pacific according to

Gartner Gartner, Inc is a technological research and consulting firm based in Stamford, Connecticut that conducts research on technology and shares this research both through private consulting as well as executive programs and conferences. Its client ...

. Alibaba Cloud operates data centers in 24 regions and 74 availability zones around the globe. As of June 2017, Alibaba Cloud is placed in the Visionaries' quadrant of

's Magic Quadrant for cloud

infrastructure as a service The first major provider of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) was Amazon in 2008. IaaS is a cloud computing service model by means of which computing resources are supplied by a cloud services provider. The IaaS vendor provides the storage, net ...

, worldwide.

History

* September 2009 – Alibaba Cloud is founded and R&D centers and operation centers are subsequently opened in

Hangzhou Hangzhou ( or , ; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), also romanized as Hangchow, is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang, China. It is located in the northwestern part of the province, sitting at the head of Hangzhou Bay, whic ...

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

, and

Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical areas San Mateo Coun ...

. * 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 ISO27001:2005 (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 In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connec ...

attack, peaking at 453.8Gbit/s. * May 2014 –

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

data center went online. * October 2015 – Two US data centers went online. * July 2015 – Alibaba Group invested a further US$1 billion 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 SK Inc. () is a holding and IT services company headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The company is divided into Investment Division and Business Division. The Investment Division operates as a holding company engaged in petroleum, telecommunica ...

C&C to provide cloud services to Korean and Chinese companies. * May 2016 – Alibaba Group and

SoftBank is a Japanese multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo which focuses on investment management. The Group primarily invests in companies operating in technology, energy, and financial sectors. It also runs the Vi ...

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). *November 2016 - Alibaba Cloud partnered with

Vodafone Germany Vodafone GmbH is a mobile telecommunications operator in Germany headquartered in Düsseldorf. It provides mobile phone, LTE, 5G, cable internet, landlines, cable TV, and IPTV services. As of the third quarter of 2021, Vodafone GmbH has more ...

for Data Center operation and to provide cloud services to

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and

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companies. * January 2017 – Alibaba became the official cloud services provider of the Olympics. *February 2017 - Became Founding Member of the

EU Cloud Code of Conduct The EU Cloud Code of Conduct (abbr. "''EU Cloud CoC''" also known by its extended title "''EU Data Protection Code of Conduct for Cloud Service Providers''") is a transnational Code of Conduct pursuant Article 40 of the European General Data Pro ...

. * 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 fro
intl.aliyun.com
t
www.alibabacloud.com
* September 2017 – Alibaba Cloud partners with Malaysia's Fusionex to provide cloud solutions in

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainlan ...

. * October 2017 – Alibaba Cloud partners with Elastic and launches a new service called Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch. * October 2017 - Alibaba Cloud

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

data center commences operations. * December 2017 - Alibaba Cloud

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

data center commences operations. *December 2017 - Alibaba Cloud received the C5 standard certification from German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) for its datacenters in Germany and Singapore. * February 2018 - Alibaba Cloud

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

data center commences operations. * June 8, 2021 - Alibaba Cloud further expands its Asia Footprint with its first data center in the Philippines. * October 19, 2021 - Alibaba Cloud unveils the ARM-based Yitian 710 chip, designed in-house, for use in its data centers. * November 24, 2021 - The bug

Log4Shell Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) was a zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a popular Java logging framework, involving arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability had existed unnoticed since 2013 and was privately disclosed to the Apache Software Found ...

disclosed to Apache on November 24 by Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba Cloud Security Team. *December 22, 2021 - The Chinese

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the Chinese government, established in March 2008, is the state agency of the People's Republic of China responsible for regulation and development of the postal service, Internet, wireless ...

suspended a partnership with Alibaba Cloud for "failure in reporting cybersecurity vulnerabilities" related to the

bug. *September 22, 2022 - Alibaba Cloud announced a $1 billion pledge to upgrade its global partner ecosystem.

Data center regions

Alibaba Cloud has 25 regional data centres globally.

Regions outside Mainland China (15)

* Asia Pacific SE 1 (Singapore) * Asia Pacific SE 2 (Sydney) * Asia Pacific SE 3 (Kuala Lumpur) * Asia Pacific SE 5 (Jakarta) * Asia pacific SE 6 (Philippines) * Asia pacific SE 7 (Bangkok) * Asia Pacific SOU 1 (Mumbai) * Asia Pacific NE 1 (Tokyo) * Asia Pacific NE 2 (Seoul) * US East 1 (Virginia) * US West 1 (Silicon Valley) * EU Central 1 (Frankfurt) * UK (London) * Middle East 1 (Dubai) * China (Hong Kong) The Data Center in Germany is operated by Vodafone Germany (Frankfurt) and certified with C5.

Regions in Mainland China (13)

* China North 1 (Qingdao) * China North 2 (Beijing) * China North 3 (Zhangjiakou) * China North 5 (Hohhot) * China North 6 (Ulanqab) * China East 1 (Hangzhou) * China East 2 (Shanghai) * China East 3 (Nanjing) * China South 1 (Shenzhen) * China South 2 (Heyuan) * China South 3 (Guangzhou) * China West 1 (Chengdu)

Products

Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing

IaaS The first major provider of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) was Amazon in 2008. IaaS is a cloud computing service model by means of which computing resources are supplied by a cloud services provider. The IaaS vendor provides the storage, net ...

PaaS Platform as a service (PaaS) or application platform as a service (aPaaS) or platform-based service is a category of cloud computing services that allows customers to provision, instantiate, run, and manage a modular bundle comprising a computing ...

DBaaS A cloud database is a database that typically runs on a cloud computing platform and access to the database is provided as-a-service. There are two common deployment models: users can run databases on the cloud independently, using a virtual machin ...

and

SaaS Software as a service (SaaS ) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS is also known as "on-demand software" and Web-based/Web-hosted software. SaaS is con ...

, including services such as

, big data,

Database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Small databases can be stored on a file system, while large databases are hosted on computer clusters or cloud storage. The design of databases s ...

, IoT,

Object storage Object storage (also known as object-based storage) is a computer data storage that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems which manages data as a file hierarchy, and block storage which manages data a ...

(OOS),

Kubernetes Kubernetes (, commonly stylized as K8s) is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Google originally designed Kubernetes, but the Cloud Native Computing Foundation now maintains ...

and data customization which can be managed from Alibaba web page or using aliyun command line tool.

History

AnalyticDB was first released in May, 2018, and the latest version 3.0 was released in 2019 On April 26, 2019, TPC published TPC-DS benchmark result of AnalyticDB. In 2019, a paper about the system design of AnalyticDB was published in

VLDB conference International Conference on Very Large Data Bases or VLDB conference is an annual conference held by the non-profit ''Very Large Data Base Endowment Inc.'' While named after very large databases, the conference covers the research and development ...

2019.

Academic partners

In 2017, Alibaba Cloud and the

Singapore University of Social Sciences Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borderin ...

(SUSS) jointly launched a university-accredited entrepreneurship program for tertiary students. List of academic alliances: *

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU; ) is a Public university, public research university in Shanghai, Shanghai, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, Ministry of Education of China ...

* Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) *

Hong Kong Shue Yan University Hong Kong Shue Yan University (HKSYU or SYU) is a private liberal-arts university on Braemar Hill, North Point, Hong Kong. Founded in 1971 as Hong Kong Shue Yan College () by Henry Hu and Chung Chi-yung, it was unilaterally recognised as the ...

* Macao University of Science and Technology *

Télécom Paris Télécom Paris (also known as ENST or Télécom or École nationale supérieure des télécommunications, also Télécom ParisTech until 2019) is a French public institution for higher education (''grande école'') and engineering research. Loca ...

* SUPINFO International University * Université de technologie sino-européenne de l'université de Shanghai *

Gadjah Mada University Gadjah Mada University ( jv, ꦈꦤꦶꦥ꦳ꦼꦂꦱꦶꦠꦱ꧀ꦓꦗꦃꦩꦢ; id, Universitas Gadjah Mada, abbreviated as UGM) is a Public university, public research university located in Sleman Regency, Sleman, Yogyakarta (special region) ...

* Universitas Prasetiya Mulya *

Bina Nusantara University Bina Nusantara University, also known as BINUS University, is a private university in Indonesia. The main campus of the university is located at Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta. Most of its campuses are located within the area of Greater Jakarta Reg ...

Krida Wacana Christian University The Krida Wacana Christian University (UKRIDA or Universitas Kristen Krida Wacana) is a private university in Jakarta, Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian ...

Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education The Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE) is one of the member institutions of the Vocational Training Council (VTC) offering vocational education to post-secondary students in Hong Kong through its nine campi located across the ter ...

Nanyang Polytechnic Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) is a post-secondary education institution and statutory board under the purview of the Ministry of Education in Singapore. History Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) was established on 1 April 1992, and enrolled its first ba ...

Republic Polytechnic Republic Polytechnic (RP) is a post-secondary education institution and statutory board under the purview of the Ministry of Education (Singapore), Ministry of Education in Singapore. Established in 2002, it is the first and only Polytechnic (Si ...

* Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi Informasi NIIT * Usman Institute of Technology *AISSMS Institute of Information Technology

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History

Data center regions

Regions outside Mainland China (15)

Regions in Mainland China (13)

Products

History

Academic partners

See also

References