Alibaba Cloud (Chinese: 阿里云; pinyin: Ālǐ yún; literally: Ali Cloud; formerly: Aliyun), a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, is a global cloud computing company headquartered in Hangzhou. Alibaba Cloud provides a suite of cloud computing services that covers elastic computing, object storage, relational database, big data analysis, and artificial intelligence in eight geographical regions around the globe. Established in September 2009, Alibaba Cloud began as a private cloud to serve the internal demands of Alibaba's e-commerce businesses, including Taobao, Tmall, and Alipay.
Alibaba Cloud is the largest cloud computing company in China, with data centers across six regions within mainland China. Alibaba Cloud also operates in eight geographical regions around the globe, with three new data center locations expected to launch.