What is Alibaba Cloud? Alibaba Cloud Review, Features

Founded in 2009, Alibaba Cloud is a leading global cloud computing and artificial intelligence technology company, providing services to enterprises, developers and government agencies in more than 200 countries and regions.

About Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud is committed to providing secure and reliable computing and data processing capabilities in the form of online public services, making computing and artificial intelligence inclusive technologies. Alibaba Cloud has opened 49 availability zones in 18 regions around the world, providing reliable computing support for billions of users around the world. In addition, Alibaba Cloud has deployed more than 200 Fei Tian data centers for global customers, providing customers with a unique hybrid cloud experience in the world through the underlying unified Fei Tian operating system.

Products and Services

1. Alibaba Cloud Data Intelligence

Data intelligence is a super intelligence developed by Alibaba Cloud. It uses breakthrough technologies to solve thorny problems in society and business. It currently has skills such as intelligent voice interaction, image/video recognition, machine learning, and sentiment analysis. The core capabilities of data intelligence lie in multi-dimensional perception, global insight, real-time decision-making, and continuous evolution to quickly make the best decision in complex situations. For all walks of life, Alibaba Cloud scientists have conducted special training on data intelligence and developed city brains, industrial brains, medical brains, environmental brains, etc., which have become powerful assistants for humans in all walks of life.

2. Apsara

Apsara is a super-large-scale general-purpose computing operating system independently developed by Alibaba Cloud and serving the world. It can connect millions of servers around the world into a supercomputer, providing computing power to society in the form of online public services. From PC Internet to mobile Internet to Internet of Everything, the Internet has become the world's new infrastructure. Apsara is revolutionary in that it integrates the three directions of cloud computing: providing sufficiently powerful computing power, providing general computing power, and providing inclusive computing power. Apsara was launched in February 2009 and currently provides services to innovative and entrepreneurial enterprises, governments, and institutions in more than 200 countries and regions around the world.

Advantages

1. High cost performance

Compared with traditional IDC, it saves 80% of cost investment. Compared with other service providers, users will save 60% of cost investment.

2. High stability

Independently developed, high reliability for massive data, multiple backups, second-level recovery, automatic expansion on demand, flexible, convenient and stable application.

3. Safe and reliable

The world's largest experience in cyber attack defense effectively helps customers reduce security risks and safeguards users' cloud operations.

4. Ecosystem

Well-known venture capital funds gather together, FeiTian’s technical capabilities are accumulated, Alibaba Group’s ecological market collaborates, and resources are integrated and shared.

5. Gold Medal Service

7x24-hour service support makes users feel more at ease.

Development History

-In September 2008, Alibaba finalized its “cloud computing” and “big data” strategies and decided to independently develop a large-scale distributed computing operating system called “Feitian”.

-In October 2008, the FeiTian team was officially formed.

-In September 2009, Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd. was officially established.

-In May 2010, Alibaba Cloud was launched to the public.

-In July 2011, Alibaba Cloud's official website was launched, and it began to provide cloud computing services to the outside world on a large scale.

-In November 2012, Alibaba Cloud was the first to obtain the ISO27001 information security management system international certification.

-In August 2013, Alibaba Cloud became the first company in the world to provide 5K cloud computing services.

-In July 2014, Alibaba Cloud released Max Compute, a big data computing platform, which allows small and medium-sized companies to start analyzing massive amounts of data with just a few hundred yuan.

-In July 2015, Alibaba Group made a strategic investment of RMB 6 billion in Alibaba Cloud.

-In January 2016, Alibaba Cloud launched the one-stop big data platform "Shujia", which opened up Alibaba's ten years of big data processing capabilities and launched the first batch of 20 products.

-In January 2017, Alibaba Cloud became the global designated cloud service provider for the Olympic Games.

-In October 2018, the UK region was launched, completing coverage of the five major markets of China, the United States, Britain, Germany, and Japan.

-In November 2018, Alibaba Cloud was upgraded to Alibaba Cloud Intelligence.