Alibaba Cloud (Chinese: ???; pinyin: ?l? yún; literally: Ali Cloud; formerly: Aliyun), a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, is a cloud computing company. Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing services to online businesses and Alibaba Group's own e-commerce ecosystem. Alibaba Cloud's international operations are registered and headquartered in Singapore, and the company has regional headquarters in Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, San Mateo, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.
Alibaba Cloud offers cloud services. Services are available on a pay-as-you-go basis and include data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, Anti-DDoS protection and content delivery networks (CDN).
Outside of the status as the largest cloud computing company in China, Alibaba Cloud operates in 18 data center regions and 42 availability zones around the globe. 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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History
- September 2009 - Alibaba Cloud is founded and R&D centers and operation centers are subsequently opened in Hangzhou, Beijing, and Silicon Valley.
- 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 - Hong Kong data center went online.
- October 2015 - Two US data centers went online.
- July 2015 - Alibaba Group invested a further 1 billion USD 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 SoftBank 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).
- January 2017 - Alibaba became the official cloud services provider of the Olympics.
- 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 from intl.aliyun.com to www.alibabacloud.com.
- September 2017 - Alibaba Cloud partners with Malaysia's Fusionex to provide cloud solutions in Southeast Asia.
- October 2017 - Alibaba Cloud partners with Elastic and launches a new service called Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch.
- October 2017 - Alibaba Cloud Malaysia data center commences operations.
- December 2017 - Alibaba Cloud India data center commences operations.
- February 2018 - Alibaba Cloud Indonesia data center commences operations.
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Data Center Regions
Alibaba Cloud has 18 data center regions globally, including China North, China South, China East, US West, US East, Europe, Middle East, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, India, Indonesia.
Products
Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, including services such as e-commerce, big data, IoT, and data customization.
Elastic Computing
Elastic Compute Service:
Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS) provides fast memory and the latest Intel CPUs to help you to power your cloud applications and achieve faster results with low latency. All ECS instances come with Anti-DDoS protection to safeguard your data and applications from DDoS and Trojan attacks. Deploy ECS instances with just a few clicks from the easy-to-use console and scale capacity up or down based on real-time demands. This means you only pay for the resources you use and avoid the need to provision expensive IT infrastructure and hire large network teams.
Simple Application Server:
Simple Application Server is a new generation computing service for stand-alone application scenarios. It provides one-click application deployment and supports all-in-one services such as domain name resolution, website publishing, security, O&M, and application management. This optimizes the user experience of setting up a simple application and makes it easier for entry-level users to use cloud computing products.
Academic Partner
In 2017, Alibaba Cloud and the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) jointly launched an university-accredited entrepreneurship program for tertiary students.
References
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