Alibaba Cloud

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.

History

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.

IDC

The IDC from Alibaba Cloud are located in the following regions:

• Singapore
• Hong Kong
• United States
  • East
    • Virginia
  • West
    • Silicon Valley
• China
  • North
    • Beijing
    • Qingdao
  • East
    • Hangzhou
    • Shanghai
  • South
    • Shenzhen

Products

Computing

• ECS (Elastic Compute Service)

Storage

• Block Storage
• Object Storage Service (OSS)

Database

• ApsaraDB for RDS (Relational Database Service)
• ApsaraDB for Memcache
• ApsaraDB for Redis
• Analytic DB
• Table Store

Networking

• VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
• SLB (Server Load Balancer)
• CDN (Content Delivery Network)

Security & management

• Anti-DDoS
• Server Guard
• Cloud Monitor

External links

• Alibaba Cloud International
• Alibaba Cloud China
• External wiki