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Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Group's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, containers, serverless functions and managed services.

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Alibaba's multi-region global cloud platform.

Alibaba Cloud is the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group. It sells virtual machines (Elastic Compute Service), managed Kubernetes, serverless functions and managed databases, alongside storage, networking, security and AI services, all from one account. Instances run Linux or Windows with root access over SSH and are provisioned from the console, the API or marketplace images.

Most services are metered by usage and billed hourly or monthly, and new accounts get a free trial. Regions cover mainland China, Hong Kong and data centers across Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa.

Identity

Founded
20093
Reach
↓5,8802
Ownership
Subsidiary
Status
Active
Wikidata
Q170621541

Deployment

Deployment
Control panel, Container image4

Regions and law

Regions
China, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, United States, South Africa6
Headquarters
China3

Support

Support
Email, Chat8

Automation

CLI
Official
API
Public9

Sources

  1. 2026-09-09: Wikidata
    www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17062154
  2. 2026-09-07: Reach
    majestic.com/reports/majestic-million
  3. 2026-08-12: Founded, Headquarters, Categories
    alibabacloud.com
  4. 2026-08-12: Metal, Operating system, Deployment, Shell
    www.alibabacloud.com/en/product/ecs
  5. 2026-08-12: Runtimes
    www.alibabacloud.com/en/product/function-compute
  6. 2026-08-12: Regions
    www.alibabacloud.com/en/global-locations
  7. 2026-08-12: Use cases
    www.alibabacloud.com/en/solutions
  8. 2026-08-12: Support
    www.alibabacloud.com/en/service/support
  9. 2026-08-12: API
    www.alibabacloud.com/en/product/api-gateway
  10. 2026-09-24: GPU
    www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/egs/what-is-elastic-gpu-service
  11. 2026-09-24: GPU
    www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/functioncompute/quasi-real-time-inference-scenarios
  12. 2026-09-24: GPU
    www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/pai/overview-2
  13. 2026-09-24: GPU
    www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/model-pricing
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