Alibaba Cloud

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Alibaba Cloud, a privately owned enterprise cloud computing and artificial intelligence provider founded in 2009 and headquartered in China, is a subsidiary of Alibaba Group. Employing approximately 4300 people as of 2023, it generated over $1 billion in revenue that year. Its services, offered on a pay-as-you-go basis, encompass a range of offerings including elastic computing, data storage, relational databases, big data processing, anti-DDoS protection, and content delivery networks (CDNs). A notable subsidiary is Whale Cloud.

2024 Revenue

Founded

2009

Headcount

4,300

Headquarters

China

Primary Segment

Enterprise cloud

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

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On July 16, 2025, Alibaba Cloud partnered with ChainCatcher to develop blockchain infrastructure for startups. This collaboration aims to reduce technical barriers for these companies. On July 19, Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi Wanxiang open-sourced its motion generation model, Wan2.2-Animate. This model facilitates animation in various applications, including short video creation and animation production. Alibaba Cloud also formed a strategic partnership with S&P Global to provide AI-ready commodities data in China.

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Alibaba Cloud offers 3 products in the connectivity and cloud and media tech industries. Alibaba Cloud's product portfolio comprises of connectivity and distribution services, video processing and playout and enterprise cloud.

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Alibaba Cloud's revenues were over $1B in 2024. Caretta Research has split Alibaba Cloud's revenue into 4 different product categories, the largest of which is enterprise cloud storage. For full access to Alibaba Cloud's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.

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Jan

16th

2026

07:18

Partnerships and Alliances, Capital Investment, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

China Thai Securities and Alibaba Cloud Sign Full-Stack AI Strategic Cooperation Agreement_NetEase Mobile

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NetEase China

Jan

15th

2026

18:30

Artificial Intelligence

EMR AI Assistant Further Upgraded: Supports Serverless StarRocks

[Translated] Following the public beta launch of the EMR AI Assistant in the EMR on ECS scenario in November 2025, Alibaba Cloud EMR continues to define the big data cluster management experience. Starting January 09, 2026, the EMR AI Assistant newly supports the Serverless StarRocks product.

Chinese Software Developer Network

Jan

15th

2026

18:30

Artificial Intelligence

AI Assistants In 2026: 9 Best ChatGPT Alternatives You Must Know

AI assistants in 2026 are no longer just helpful chatbots. They’ve turned into everyday decision-makers, research partners, and productivity boosters for millions of users worldwide. A widely discussed global outage of ChatGPT earlier reinforced one hard reality: relying on a single AI assistant isn’t enough anymore.

Qrius

Jan

15th

2026

18:30

Alibaba Cloud vs. Huawei Cloud: A Comparison of Gene Sequencing Data Synchronization Security?

[Translated] Both Alibaba Cloud and Huawei Cloud have robust security protection systems for gene sequencing data synchronization security, but there are differences in the specific implementation methods and focuses. Alibaba Cloud's gene analysis platform adopts a full-link encryption system to achieve end-to-end data security protection from the hardware layer to the application layer.

Chinese Software Developer Network

Jan

15th

2026

13:53

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Customer Cases Ascendiv Sdn Bhd

Technology Malaysia SME/Startup "Alibaba Cloud has enabled us to rapidly unify fragmented data estates, significantly accelerate analytics productivity through Quick BI, and operationalise AI-driven insights in day-to-day decision-making for our public sector and financial services

Alibaba Cloud

Jan

15th

2026

13:53

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Customer Case DINQ

Technology Hong Kong (China) SME/Startup “Alibaba Cloud has enabled DINQ to build a highly scalable, cloud-native architecture that supports real-time collaboration and AI-driven talent matching at a global scale, while maintaining low latency and operational

Alibaba Cloud

Jan

15th

2026

13:00

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Solution: Manual Logical Migration from a Self-managed MySQL Database to PolarDB-X Standard Edition

By Yan Hua 1. Preface 1.1. Why Choose PolarDB-X Standard Edition? In today's data-driven business landscape, traditional self-managed MySQL databases face growing challenges: ensuring high availability is increasingly difficult, performance bottlenecks become more pronounced, and the costs and efforts of scaling and maintenance rise sharply.

Alibaba Cloud

Jan

15th

2026

13:00

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

Disaster Recovery for Databases: High-availability Architecture of PolarDB-X

By Yan Hua This article systematically analyzes the high-availability (HA) architecture of PolarDB-X, a cloud-native distributed database of Alibaba Cloud. From disaster recovery fundamentals and HA design principles to real-world deployment solutions, this article reveals how PolarDB-X achieves financial-grade disaster recovery by using multi-layered redundancy and automated failover mechanisms.

Alibaba Cloud

Jan

15th

2026

13:00

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Is Your AI Agent Getting Dumber? Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB Unveils AI Context Engineering

1. What Is AI Context Engineering? 1.1 Current Status and Challenges Today, interactions with large language models (LLMs) are mainly controlled by prompt engineering, but this approach faces several significant challenges: (1) Missing context leads to frequent hallucinations.

Alibaba Cloud

Jan

15th

2026

11:47

Emerging Tech, B2B Tag

How do Alibaba Cloud and Huawei Cloud achieve data collaboration in gene sequencing data analysis?

[Translated] Alibaba Cloud and Huawei Cloud achieve data collaboration in gene sequencing data analysis through multi-tenant workspaces, permission control, and standardized process sharing, ensuring efficient collaboration among multiple teams and projects. Alibaba Cloud's gene analysis platform adopts a workspace mechanism to support multi-user collaborative analysis.

Chinese Software Developer Network

Jan

15th

2026

11:09

B2B Tag

Alibaba Cloud Channel Partners: What are the Key Strategies for Improving the Security and Performance of Cloud Firewall Rules?

[Translated] Introduction: In a cloud computing environment, firewall rules are the first line of defense for network security. However, with business expansion, rule sets often become bloated and complex, which not only affects protection efficiency but may also slow down network performance.

Chinese Software Developer Network

Jan

15th

2026

04:07

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Alibaba Cloud to Lead China's AI Cloud Market

[Translated] Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group (Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province), announced its business goals for this year on the 14th...

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Alibaba Cloud's customers primarily consist of spectator Sports, media managed services and computer Hardware Manufacturing companies. Examples of Alibaba Cloud's customers include World Aquatics, Olympic Broadcasting Services and Nvidia. Examples of Alibaba Cloud's suppliers include Irdeto and To The New.

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