Provider Overview
Alibaba Cloud is the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, leading the Asia Pacific market with the third-largest global market share. It offers elastic compute, cloud databases, AI platform, big data analytics, and security services. Operating 89 availability zones across 30 regions worldwide, Alibaba Cloud has deep industry experience in e-commerce, finance, and logistics. Key products include ECS, RDS, OSS, and ACK container service.
Core Capabilities
- Elastic Compute: ECS, auto-scaling, GPU instances, bare metal servers.
- Databases: RDS (MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQL Server), PolarDB, Redis, MongoDB.
- AI Platform: Tongyi Qianwen LLM, PAI ML platform, visual intelligence.
- Networking & CDN: CDN, DDoS protection, load balancing, VPN gateway.
- Security: WAF, security center, bastion host.
Best-fit Scenarios
- China market deployments: Most domestic nodes with streamlined ICP filing for China-facing applications.
- Cross-border business: Coverage across Southeast Asia, Europe, Americas, and Middle East.
- E-commerce/finance: High-availability architecture battle-tested by Alibaba's Singles' Day.