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Type of site | Subsidiary |
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Key people |
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Industry | Cloud Computing, Web Services |
Parent | Alibaba Group |
URL | www |
Launched | September 2009 |
Current status | Active |
Alibaba Cloud, also known as Aliyun (Chinese: 阿里云; pinyin: Ālǐyún; lit. 'Ali Cloud'), is a cloud computing company, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group. Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing services to online businesses and Alibaba's own e-commerce ecosystem. Its international operations are registered and headquartered in Singapore.[1]
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 networks (CDN).
It is the largest cloud computing company in China,[2] and in Asia Pacific according to Gartner.[3] Alibaba Cloud operates data centers in 24 regions and 74 availability zones around the globe.[4] As of June 2017, Alibaba Cloud is placed in the Visionaries' quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for cloud infrastructure as a service, worldwide.
Alibaba Cloud has 25 regional data centres globally.
The Data Center in Germany is operated by Vodafone Germany (Frankfurt)[8][9] and certified with C5.
Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing IaaS, PaaS, DBaaS and SaaS, including services such as e-commerce, big data, Database, IoT, Object storage (OOS), Kubernetes[25] and data customization which can be managed from Alibaba web page or using aliyun
command line tool.
AnalyticDB was first released in May, 2018,[26] and the latest version 3.0 was released in 2019[27]
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.[28]
In 2017, Alibaba Cloud and the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) jointly launched a university-accredited entrepreneurship program for tertiary students.[29]
List of academic alliances: