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[[wikipedia:Alibaba_Cloud|Alibaba Cloud]] provides cloud computing services since 2009.
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== Regions == 
* China (Hong Kong)	Hong Kong	cn-hongkong	2
* Singapore	Singapore	ap-southeast-1	3
* Australia (Sydney)	Sydney	ap-southeast-2	2
* Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)	Kuala Lumpur	ap-southeast-3	2
* Indonesia (Jakarta)	Jakarta	ap-southeast-5	2
* India (Mumbai)	Mumbai	ap-south-1	2
* Japan (Tokyo)	Tokyo	ap-northeast-1	2
* US (Silicon Valley)	Silicon Valley	us-west-1	2
* US (Virginia)	Virginia	us-east-1	2
* Germany (Frankfurt)	Frankfurt	eu-central-1	2
* UK (London)	London	eu-west-1	2
* [[UAE]] (Dubai)	Dubai
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==History==
* September 2009 – Alibaba Cloud is founded and R&D centers and operation centers are subsequently opened in [[Hangzhou]], [[Beijing]], and [[Silicon Valley|Silicon Valley.]]
* November 2010 – Supported the first [[Singles' Day|Single's Day (11.11)]] Taobao shopping festival, with 2.4 billion [[Page view|PV]] in 24 hours.
* November 2012 – Became the first Chinese cloud service provider to pass ISO27001:2005 (Information Security Management System).
* January 2013 – Merged with HiChina for www.net.cn business.
* August 2013 – [[ApsaraDB]] architecture supported 5000 physical machines in a single cluster.
* December 2014 – Defended a 14-hour long [[Denial-of-service attack|DDoS]] attack, peaking at 453.8Gbit/s.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.pccwglobal.com/en/news-room/2016/443-pccw-global-and-alibaba-cloud-expand-strategic-cooperation-to-collaboratively-protect-businesses-against-cyber-attacks|title=PCCW Global and Alibaba Cloud expand strategic cooperation to collaboratively protect businesses against cyber attacks|date=2016-08-25|accessdate=2017-08-18}}</ref>
* May 2014 – [[Hong Kong]] data center went online.
* October 2015 – Two [[United States|US]] data centers went online.
* July 2015 – Alibaba Group invested a further US$1 billion to Alibaba Cloud.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fortune.com/2015/07/29/alibaba-puts-1-billion-into-aliyun-cloud/|title=Alibaba backs Aliyun cloud with another billion dollars|author=Barb Darrow|website=Fortune|accessdate=2017-08-18}}</ref>
* August 2015 – Alibaba Cloud's first Singapore data center opened. Singapore is announced as Alibaba Cloud's overseas headquarters.
* October 2015 – MaxCompute took the lead of the Sort Benchmark, sorting 100TB data in 377s compared with [[Apache Spark]]'s previous record of 1406s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetechrevolutionist.com/2015/10/alicloud-technology-sets-world-sorting.html|author=Hang Zhi Cheng|title=AliCloud Technology Sets World Sorting Records Company’s FuxiSort solution sorts 100TB of data in 377 seconds|publisher=The Tech Revolutionist|date=2015-10-30|accessdate=2017-08-18}}</ref>
* October 2015 – Alibaba Cloud Computing Conference was held in Hangzhou and attracted over 20,000 developers.
* November 2015 – Supported the 11.11 shopping festival with a record of $14.2 billion transactions in 24 hours.
* April 2016 – Alibaba Cloud partnered with [[SK Group|SK Holdings]] C&C to provide cloud services to Korean and Chinese companies.
* May 2016 – Alibaba Group and [[SoftBank Group|SoftBank]] formalized joint venture to launch cloud services in [[Japan]] that utilize technologies and [[solution]]s from Alibaba Cloud.
* June 2016 – Alibaba Cloud expanded its data center operations in Singapore with the establishment of a second availability zone. Alibaba Cloud also achieved two new certifications overseas: Singapore Multi-Tier Cloud Security ([[MTCS]]) standard Level 3, and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS).
*November 2016 - Alibaba Cloud partnered with [[Vodafone Germany]] for Data Center operation and to provide cloud services to [[Germany|German]] and [[European Union|European]] companies.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.vodafone.de/medien/digitales-arbeiten/markteintritt-in-europa-alibaba-cloud-setzt-auf-rechenzentrum-von-vodafone-deutschland/|title=Markteintritt in Europa: Alibaba Cloud setzt auf Rechenzentrum von Vodafone Deutschland - Vodafone Medien|date=2016-11-21|work=Vodafone Medien|access-date=2018-07-01|language=de-DE}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.alibabacloud.com/vodafone-partnership|title=Vodafone Partnership|website=www.alibabacloud.com|language=en|access-date=2018-07-10}}</ref>
* January 2017 – Alibaba became the official cloud services provider of the [[Olympic Games|Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/19/alibaba-is-now-the-official-cloud-services-provider-of-the-olympics/|title=Alibaba is now the official cloud services provider of the Olympics|author=Fitz Tepper|publisher=[[TechCrunch]]|date=2017-01-19|accessdate=2017-08-18}}</ref>
* June 2017 – Alibaba Cloud is placed in the Visionaries quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/15/alibaba-cloud-ready-to-take-on-amazon-microsoft-google-gartner.html|title=Alibaba just got a huge vote of confidence in the cloud war against Amazon and Microsoft|author=Jordan Novet|publisher=[[CNBC]]|date=2017-06-15|accessdate=2017-08-18}}</ref>
* July 2017 – Alibaba Cloud official website is changed from [https://intl.aliyun.com intl.aliyun.com] to [https://www.alibabacloud.com www.alibabacloud.com].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alibabacloud.com/notice/official-domain-name-change|title=Alibaba Cloud International Website Official Domain Name Change|website=www.alibabacloud.com|date=2017-07-04|language=en|access-date=2017-08-18}}</ref>
* September 2017 – Alibaba Cloud partners with [[Malaysia|Malaysia's]] [[Fusionex]] to provide cloud solutions in [[Southeast Asia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-09/26/c_136639856.htm|title=Alibaba Cloud partners with Malaysia's Fusionex to provide cloud solutions in Southeast Asia}}</ref>
* October 2017 – Alibaba Cloud partners with Elastic and launches a new service called Alibaba Cloud Elasticsearch.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elastic.co/blog/alibaba-cloud-to-offer-elasticsearch-kibana-and-x-pack-in-china|title=Alibaba Cloud to Offer Elasticsearch, Kibana, and X-Pack in China}}</ref>
* October 2017 - Alibaba Cloud Malaysia data center commences operations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alibabacloud.com/press-room/alibaba-cloud-malaysia-data-center-commences-operations|title=Alibaba Cloud Malaysia Data Center Commences Operations}}</ref>
* December 2017 - Alibaba Cloud [[India]] data center commences operations.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.alizila.com/alibaba-cloud-opens-new-data-center-in-india/|title=Alibaba Cloud Opens New Data Center in India {{!}} Alizila.com|date=2017-12-19|work=Alizila.com|access-date=2018-04-20|language=en-US}}</ref>
*December 2017 - Alibaba Cloud received the C5 standard certification from [[German Federal Office for Information Security]] (BSI) for its datacenters in Germany and Singapore.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Presse2017/Cloud_Computing_C5-Testat_an_Alibaba_Cloud_14122017.html|title=BSI - Presseinformationen des BSI - Cloud Computing: C5-Testat an Alibaba Cloud|website=www.bsi.bund.de|access-date=2019-07-07}}</ref>
* February 2018 - Alibaba Cloud [[Indonesia]] data center commences operations.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/alibaba-opens-data-centre-in-indonesia/|title=Alibaba opens data centre in Indonesia {{!}} ZDNet|last=Yu|first=Eileen|work=ZDNet|access-date=2018-04-20|language=en}}</ref>

== Related ==
* [[OSS]]

== See also ==
* {{Alibaba Cloud}}
* {{alibaba}}
* {{Cloud China}}

[[Category:Cloud computing]]

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