Alibaba entered the world of public cloud services in 2009 with Aliyun, only three years after Amazon made a similar move by establishing Amazon Web Services (AWS). Following a strategic decision to expand aggressively outside of China, in 2015 they made a billion-dollar investment in Aliyun, which was rebranded as Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba cloud has one of the largest footprints and is widely used in China. It is growing at a rapid pace over the globe. It provides a wide range of services essential to hosting highly available and fast websites. It is quite economical to use and is encouraging start ups with its services at lower rates by providing bundled package.

As the leading online marketplace in China and Asia, it was a natural step for Alibaba to turn its own considerable cloud computing capabilities into a public service. Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing services to online businesses and Alibaba’s own ecommerce ecosystem.

Alibaba Cloud’s international operations are registered and headquartered in Singapore. As in Aug. 2019, the company made an announcement to rename Alibaba Cloud to Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.

 

Alibaba Cloud has 19 regional data centres globally, including China North, China South, China East, US West, US East, Europe, United Kingdom, Middle East, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, India, and Indonesia.

Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing Infrastructure As a Service (IaaS), Platform As A Service (PaaS), Database As a Service (DBaaS) and (Software As a Service) SaaS, including services such as ecommerce, big data, Database, Internet of Things (IoT), Object storage (OOS), Kubernetes and data customization which can be managed from Alibaba web page or using Aliyun command line tool.