# Alibaba Cloud Global

> Alibaba Cloud Global is the international-facing cloud and AI business of Alibaba Group. It sells computing, storage, databases, security and model services to developers and organizations, combining an Asia-focused infrastructure heritage with global delivery and the Qwen model ecosystem.

- **Founded:** 2009
- **Headquarters:** Singapore (international operations); Hangzhou, China (Alibaba Cloud)
- **Founders:** Wang Jian (Founder of Alibaba Cloud; founding president and Apsara architect)
- **Products:** Elastic Compute Service (ECS), Object Storage Service (OSS), PolarDB, Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, Qwen
- **Notable:** Apsara reached a 5,000-server cluster milestone in August 2013., OBS Live Cloud served 54 broadcasters at Paris 2024., Alibaba reports 5 million customers across 200+ countries and territories on its current overview page.

## Products & services

- **Elastic Compute Service (ECS)** — Virtual cloud servers with configurable computing capacity, networking and scaling.
- **Object Storage Service (OSS)** — Cloud object storage for files, application assets, backups and data workloads.
- **PolarDB** — Cloud-native relational database service supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle-compatible editions.
- **Alibaba Cloud Model Studio** — Managed access to AI models and tools for developing generative AI applications.
- **Qwen** — Language and multimodal model family, including open-weight releases and hosted services; first open-weight models published in August 2023.
- **Platform for AI (PAI)** — Managed tooling for machine learning development, training and deployment.
- **Cloud security and networking** — Web application protection, traffic distribution and connectivity services.
- **Training and certification** — Cloud and AI learning resources and professional certifications.

## Achievements

- Apsara reached a 5,000-server cluster milestone in August 2013.
- OBS Live Cloud served 54 broadcasters at Paris 2024.
- Alibaba reports 5 million customers across 200+ countries and territories on its current overview page.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Announced plans for first regions in Türkiye, Finland and the Netherlands over the following 12 months, alongside expansion in existing markets; these were plans, not completed launches.
- **2026-08** — Alibaba reported June-quarter AI Cloud and Compute Services segment revenue of US$7.1 billion, up 45% year over year.
- **2026-08** — Legal notice clarified international platform provider and regional contracting entities; changes effective September 11, 2026.
- **2025-02** — Alibaba Group committed at least RMB380 billion, then about US$53 billion, to cloud and AI infrastructure over three years.

## Links

- Website: https://www.alibabacloud.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alibabacloudglobal/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/alibaba_cloud
- GitHub: https://github.com/aliyun
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCipPA-ZHX6UYGH_Iyti1-Jw
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alibabacloud/

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Last updated: 2026-10-25