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 manag ...

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 Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium. Handwriting, phonographic recording, magnetic tape, and optical discs are all examples of storage media. Biological molecules such as RNA and DNA are consi ...

relational database A relational database is a (most commonly digital) database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. A system used to maintain relational databases is a relational database management system (RDBMS). Many relati ...

s, 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 Chinese, Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), also Chinese postal romanization, romanized as Hangchow, is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang, China. It is located in the northwestern part of the prov ...

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the Capital city, capital of the China, People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's Li ...

, 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 Cou ...

. * 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 conn ...

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

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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 Apache Spark is an open-source unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. Spark provides an interface for programming clusters with implicit data parallelism and fault tolerance. Originally developed at the University of Califor ...

'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 Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...

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 The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an information security standard used to handle credit cards from major card brands. The standard is administered by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council and its use ...

(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 European companies. * January 2017 – Alibaba became the official cloud services provider of the

Olympics The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a vari ...

. *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 mainland ...

. * 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 federal constitutional monarchy consists of thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Mal ...

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 List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...

data center commences operations. *December 2017 - Alibaba Cloud received the C5 standard certification from

German Federal Office for Information Security The Federal Office for Information Security (german: Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, abbreviated as BSI) is the German upper-level federal agency in charge of managing computer and communication security for the German g ...

(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 Gui ...

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 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, wireles ...

suspended a partnership with Alibaba Cloud for "failure in reporting cybersecurity vulnerabilities" related to the Log4Shell 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, DBaaS 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 co ...

, including services such as

big data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

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 ...

IoT The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other comm ...

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 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 * 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 research university located in Sleman, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Officially founded ...

* 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 * Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education *

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 * Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi Informasi NIIT *

Usman Institute of Technology UIT University (formerly Usman Institute of Technology (UIT)) is a not-for profit institute. UIT university's campus is located at the intersection of University Road and Abul Hasan Isphahani Road, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Pakistan. On 18 Dec ...

*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