Where are Alibaba data centers?

GUANGZHOU, China — Alibaba plans to open its first data centers in South Korea and Thailand in 2022 as the Chinese technology giant looks to expand its cloud business further overseas.

Does Alibaba own data centers?

Alibaba Cloud currently has 24 regional data centers 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.

What server does Alibaba use?

For instance, Alibaba’s general purpose virtual servers are known as Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances, while Amazon Web Services offers similarly capable Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances.

Where is AliCloud hosted?

Located in Zhejiang Province, the data center uses solar panels, smart heating and cooling systems, and water from nearby Qiandao Lake to help keep thousands of computer servers operating at optimal temperatures, according to AliCloud Cloud Computing (formerly known as Aliyun).

What data does Alibaba collect?

Alibaba uses Big Data on online retailing, inventory management, logistic, insurance as well as loan financing. In January 2017, the founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, announced the end to e-commerce. He made a bald decision to combine physical and online retailing into one.

How many data center regions does Alibaba Cloud have?

Outside of the status as the largest cloud computing company in China, Alibaba Cloud operates in 18 data center regions and 42 availability zones around the globe. As of June 2017, Alibaba Cloud is placed in the Visionaries’ quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide.

How to choose the right data center in China?

Data center regions in China offer BGP backbone network lines providing high-quality coverage country-wide to ensure stable and fast access inside the Mainland. In general, we recommend customers to select the data center closest to their end-users to further speed up online access.

What is the status of Alibaba Cloud C5 certification?

December 2017 – Alibaba Cloud received the C5 standard certification from German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) for its datacenters in Germany and Singapore. February 2018 – Alibaba Cloud Indonesia data center commences operations.

What is the history of Alibaba?

September 2009 – Alibaba Cloud is founded and R&D centers and operation centers are subsequently opened in Hangzhou, Beijing, and Silicon Valley. November 2010 – Supported the first Single’s Day (11.11) Taobao shopping festival, with 2.4 billion PV in 24 hours.