Alibaba Cloud is a subsidiary of Alibaba Group. Known as 阿里云 in Chinese, Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing services covering IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, big data and bespoke solutions.
Established in 2009, headquartered in Hangzhou, Alibaba Cloud began the journey by serving the internal demand of Alibaba's e-commerce businesses, such as Taobao and Tmall.
2010, supported the first 11.11 Taobao shopping festival, 2.4 billion PV in 24 hours.
2013, merged net.cn business.
2013, Apsara architecture support 5000 physical machines in a single cluster.
2014, defended the largest DDoS attack, peaking at 453.8Gbps.
2014, Hong Kong data centre online.
2015, Two US data centres online.
2015, Alibaba Group invested a further 1 billion US dollar to Alibaba Cloud.
2015, MaxCompute took the lead of the Sort Benchmark, sorted 100TB data in 377s compared to the previous champion Apache Spark's 1406s record.
2015-10, Alibaba Cloud Computing Conference in Hangzhou attracted over 20,000 developers.
2015-11, supported 11.11 shopping festival, $14.2 billion transactions in 24 hours.
2016 - 04, Alibaba Cloud partners with SK Holdings C&C to provide cloud services to Korean and Chinese companies.
2016 - 05, Alibaba Group and SoftBank formalize joint venture to launch cloud services in Japan that utilize technologies and solutions from Alibaba Cloud.
2016 - 06, Alibaba Cloud expands its data center operations in Singapore with the establishment of a second availability zone. Alibaba Cloud also achieves two new certifications overseas: Singapore Multi-Tier Cloud Security (MTCS) standard Level 3, and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS).
2017-01, Alibaba becomes the official cloud services provider of the Olympics.
The IDC from Alibaba Cloud are located in the following regions:
Singapore
Hong Kong
Europe
United States
East
Virginia
West
Silicon Valley
China
North
Beijing
Qingdao
East
Hangzhou
Shanghai
South
Shenzhen
ECS (Elastic Compute Service)
Block Storage
Object Storage Service (OSS)
ApsaraDB for RDS (Relational Database Service)
ApsaraDB for Memcache
ApsaraDB for Redis
Analytic DB
Table Store
VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
SLB (Server Load Balancer)
CDN (Content Delivery Network)
Anti-DDoS
Server Guard
Cloud Monitor
