Alibaba Cloud – Small Introduction

I had chance to work and test alibaba cloud, so i thought it’s good idea to write something about it since i already used AWS, Azure and OCI and this is will be my 4th cloud vendor.

Alibaba Cloud is the subsidiary of the e-commerce hub Alibaba Group. The group launched its cloud services in 2009. Today, cloud is the most ambitious project of Alibaba Group where they are investing their hard efforts to win over AWS.

The company has an exclusive range of cloud computing products and services that are divided into 7 categories of Elastic Computing and Networking, Security and Management, Database, Application Services, Domains and website, Storage and CDN and Analytics. Customers of Alibaba Cloud are eligible to get the benefits of cloud security, record breaking computing power, cloud security, safeguard your data, etc.

I really like the cloud and the portal, it’s very simple and ease of use, include to this, having a lot of different features same as AWS, you can check them from here.

the alibaba cloud known as different name also, Aliyun, Alibaba Cloud has 19 regional data centres 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, right now the Data Center in Germany is operated by Vodafone Germany

Some of the clients that using this cloud : Ford, Air Aisa, Lazada, and more.

Some of the services that providing by alibaba:-

  • Elastic Computing
  • Storage & CDN
  • Networking
  • Database Services
  • Security

and will discuss each one of them in different post, the next one will be alibaba services.

Cheers

Osama

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