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

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

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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, borde ...

. Alibaba Cloud offers cloud services that are available on a pay-as-you-go basis, and include elastic compute,

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, relational databases, big-data processing, anti-DDoS protection and

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

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. 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, worldwide.

History

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

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, and

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. * 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 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'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

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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 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

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. *February 2017 - Became Founding Member of the EU Cloud Code of Conduct. * 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
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* September 2017 – Alibaba Cloud partners with Malaysia's Fusionex to provide cloud solutions in

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

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data center commences operations. * December 2017 - Alibaba Cloud

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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

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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 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, PaaS, DBaaS and SaaS, including services such as

, big data,

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, Object storage (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 maintai ...

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 (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 *

Macao University of Science and Technology The Macau University of Science and Technology (M.U.S.T., ; pt, Universidade de Ciência e Tecnologia de Macau) is a private university founded in 2000 at Taipa, Macau, China. M.U.S.T. is acknowledged by Macau Education and Youth Developmen ...

* Télécom Paris *

SUPINFO International University SUPINFO International University, formerly called "École Supérieure d'Informatique", is a private institution of higher education in Computer Science that was created in 1965 and has been recognized by the French state since 10 January 1972. Ov ...

* 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 on ...

* Universitas Prasetiya Mulya * Bina Nusantara University *

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 * Republic Polytechnic * 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