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Type of site | Subsidiary |
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| Industry | Cloud Computing,Web Services |
| Products | Qwen |
| Parent | Alibaba Group |
| URL | alibabacloud.com |
| Launched | September 2009; 16 years ago (2009-09) |
| Current status | Active |
Alibaba Cloud, also known asAliyun (Chinese:阿里云;pinyin:Ālǐyún;lit. 'Ali Cloud'), is acloud computing company, a subsidiary ofAlibaba Group. Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing services to online businesses and Alibaba's owne-commerce ecosystem. Its international operations are registered and headquartered inSingapore.[1]
Alibaba Cloud offers cloud services that are available on a pay-as-you-go basis, and includeelastic compute,data storage,relational databases,big-data processing,DDoS protection andcontent delivery networks (CDN).
It is the largest cloud computing company in China,[2] and in Asia Pacific according toGartner.[3] Alibaba Cloud operates data centers in 29 regions and 87 availability zones around the globe.[4] As of June 2017, Alibaba Cloud is placed in the Visionaries' quadrant ofGartner'sMagic Quadrant for cloudinfrastructure as a service, worldwide.
Alibaba Cloud was founded in September 2009, and R&D centers and operation centers were opened inHangzhou,Beijing, andSilicon Valley.
In November 2010, the company supported the firstSingle's Day (11.11) Taobao shopping festival, with 2.4 billion PageViews (PV) in 24 hours.[5][6] Two years later, in November 2012, it became the first Chinese cloud service provider to passISO27001:2005 (Information Security Management System).[7]
In January 2013, Alibaba Cloud merged with HiChina (founded byXiangning Zhang) for the www.net.cn business as one of the largest acquisitions in the company's history at the time.[8][9] In August of that year, ApsaraDB architecture supported 5000 physical machines in a single cluster.
The company'sHong Kong data center went online in May 2014, and in December of that year, Alibaba Cloud defended a 14-hour-longDDoS attack, peaking at 453.8 Gbit/s.[10]
In July 2015, the Alibaba Group invested US$1 billion in Alibaba Cloud.[11] A month later, Alibaba Cloud's firstSingapore data center opened, and Singapore was announced as Alibaba Cloud's overseas headquarters.
TwoUS data centers went online in October 2015, and that same month MaxCompute took the lead in the Sort Benchmark, sorting 100 TB data in 377s compared withApache Spark's previous record of 1406s.[12] The Alibaba Cloud Computing Conference was also held in October 2015 inHangzhou and attracted over 20,000 developers.[13] A month later, in November, the company supported the 11.11 shopping festival with a record of $14.2 billion transactions in 24 hours.[14][15]
Alibaba Cloud partnered withSK Holdings C&C in April 2016 to provide cloud services to Korean and Chinese companies.[16] A month later, the company formalized a joint venture withSoftBank to launch cloud services inJapan that utilize technologies and solutions from Alibaba Cloud.[17]
In 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 Three-Domain Secure (PCI 3DS).[18][19]
The company partnered withVodafone Germany in November 2016 for Data Center operations and to provide cloud services toGerman andEuropean companies.[20]
Alibaba became the official cloud services provider of theOlympics in January 2017.[21] A month later, in February, the company became a founding Member of the EU Cloud Code of Conduct.[22]
In June 2017, Alibaba Cloud was placed in the Visionaries quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide.[23]
Alibaba Cloud partnered withMalaysia's Fusionex in September 2017 to provide cloud solutions inSoutheast Asia,[24] and theMalaysia data center commenced operations in October. That same month, the company partnered with Elastic and launched a new service called Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch.[25]
Alibaba CloudIndia data center commenced operations in December 2017.[26] In addition, Alibaba Cloud received the C5 standard certification from theGerman Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) for its data centers in Germany and Singapore.[27]
In February 2018, Alibaba Cloud'sIndonesia data center commenced operations.[28] The company's first data center opening in thePhilippines in June 2021.[29]
Alibaba Cloud unveiled the ARM-based Yitian 710 chip, designed in-house, for use in its data centers in October 2021.[30]
On November 24, 2021, the bugLog4Shell was disclosed to Apache by Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba Cloud's Security Team. On December 22, 2021, the ChineseMinistry of Industry and Information Technology suspended a partnership with Alibaba Cloud for "failure in reporting cybersecurity vulnerabilities" related to theLog4Shell bug.[31]
In September 2022, Alibaba Cloud announced a $1 billion pledge to upgrade its global partner ecosystem.[32]
Alibaba Cloud has 25 regional data centres globally. The Data Center inGermany is operated byVodafoneGermany (Frankfurt)[33][34] and certified with C5.
Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computingIaaS,PaaS,DBaaS andSaaS, including services such ase-commerce,big data,Database,IoT,Object storage (OSS),Kubernetes[35] and data customization which can be managed from Alibaba web page or usingaliyun command line tool.
AnalyticDB was first released in May 2018,[36] and the latest version 3.0 was released in 2019.[37]
On April 26, 2019,TPC published TPC-DS benchmark result of AnalyticDB.
In 2019, a paper about the system design of AnalyticDB was published inVLDB conference 2019.[38]
List of academic alliances:
On October 26, 2016, Zhang Kai, CEO ofITHome issued an announcement stating he could no longer tolerate Alibaba Cloud's overselling and service interruption issues, and had migrated the hosting entirely toBaidu Cloud.[40] Alibaba Cloud subsequently issued an apology letter, but indirectly mentioned that website performance should consider systemarchitecture and avoidsingle-point design.[41]
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