Alibaba Cloud (Chinese: 阿里云; pinyin: Ālǐyún; lit. 'Ali Cloud'), also known as Aliyun, 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 AlibabaCloudLogo.svg Type of site Subsidiary Key people Jack Ma (Executive Chairman) Simon Hu (President) Industry Cloud Computing, Web Services Parent Alibaba Group URL www.alibabacloud.com Launched September 2009; 12 years ago Current status Active 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.