Alibaba Cloud

https://www.alibabacloud.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/alibaba-cloud-computing-company/

Alibaba Cloud, a privately owned company headquartered in China and a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, with Whale Cloud as a key subsidiary, was founded in 2009. The company employs approximately 4,300 individuals and reported $22.0B in revenue as of 2025. Functioning primarily as an enterprise cloud provider, Alibaba Cloud delivers cloud computing and artificial intelligence services. Its offerings are available on a pay-as-you-go basis and encompass areas such as Elastic Compute, Data Storage, Relational Databases, Big-Data Processing, Anti-DDoS protection, and Content Delivery Networks (CDN).

2025 Revenue

Founded

2009

Headcount

4,300

Headquarters

China

Primary Segment

Enterprise cloud

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

News Summary:

On September 11, 2026, Alibaba Cloud's founder dismissed concerns about artificial intelligence's electricity consumption, arguing that AI delivers larger energy savings for society as a whole and advised young people to treat AI as a tool that extends human capability. Concurrently, Alibaba Cloud upgraded the personal version of its Token Plan, maintaining original pricing and credit quotas while adding usage rights and quotas for the Agent Harness tool to its Standard and Pro packages, covering 12 common Agent development capabilities including search, image generation, and voice processing. The Telkom Foundation also partnered with BCX, Alibaba Cloud, and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) to launch the Qoder Programme, providing approximately 165 third-year Computer Science students at Wits with access to AI-powered development tools. Previously, on September 4, 2026, Alibaba Cloud's Qwen Conference Thailand 2026 in Bangkok brought together nearly 400 enterprise customers, developers, and AI practitioners, where QwenCloud Product Manager Li Yan delivered a keynote titled “QwenCloud: AI-Native Cloud Built for the Agent Era,” and Product Manager Ge Jun demonstrated an end-to-end agent-as-a-customer workflow.

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Alibaba Cloud offers 11 products in the enterprise tech, telecoms tech, pro AV, connectivity and cloud and media tech industries. Alibaba Cloud's product portfolio comprises of video business systems, content supply chain, telecoms network infrastructure, video processing and playout, enterprise security, conferencing systems and UC, connectivity and distribution services and enterprise cloud.

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Alibaba Cloud's revenues were over $1B in 2025. Caretta Research has split Alibaba Cloud's revenue into 12 different product categories, the largest of which is cloud compute. For full access to Alibaba Cloud's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.

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15th

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06:30

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, Regulations and Policies

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15th

2026

06:30

Partnerships and Alliances, Emerging Tech, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, Partnerships

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15th

2026

01:00

B2B Tag, Product Updates

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We’re pleased to share our latest monthly update newsletter, which summarizes the key international feature updates for Alibaba Cloud Security products in August 2026. The highlights include: ● Agent Loop feature released; ● Anti-DDoS Native supports the commercialization of fully standardized log ingestion; ● WAF releases ATO commercialization and multiple mitigation capabilities enhancements.

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15th

2026

01:00

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, New Offerings

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15th

2026

01:00

Emerging Tech, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, New Offerings

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14th

2026

06:30

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06:30

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14th

2026

01:00

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag, New Offerings

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash Is Now on Alibaba Cloud Token Plan: How to Get Started from $6 a Month

Alibaba Cloud added deepseek-v4.1-flash to Token Plan Personal Edition . DeepSeek built the model for agent work: a 1M-token context, fast inference, and high throughput. Token Plan bills it in Credits against a flat monthly fee and cuts that rate in half between 22:00 and 08:00 (UTC+8).

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14th

2026

01:00

Emerging Tech, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, New Offerings

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By Sun Chuan (Hualuo) In the agent era, what is needed is a data workspace agents can connect to, remember with, search, experiment in, roll back, trace, and run elastically. PolarDB for MySQL, the cloud-native database from Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB, is becoming the full-stack data foundation behind that workspace.

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12th

2026

22:51

Capital Investment, Emerging Tech, ESG, Artificial Intelligence, Events and Conferences, Investments

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Alibaba Cloud's customers primarily consist of broadcast Media Production and Distribution, computer Hardware Manufacturing and wholesale companies. Examples of Alibaba Cloud's customers include Nvidia, MNC Media and CP Axtra. Examples of Alibaba Cloud's suppliers include Irdeto and To The New.

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