Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud offers cloud services that are available on a pay-as-you-go basis, and include Elastic
Compute, Data Storage, Relational Databases, Big-Data Processing, Anti-DDoS protection and
Content Delivery Networks (CDN).

It is the largest cloud computing company in China,[2] and operates data centers in 23 regions and
63 availability zones around the globe. As of June 2017, Alibaba Cloud is placed in the Visionaries'
quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide.

History

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September 2009 – Alibaba Cloud is founded and R&D centers and operation centers are
subsequently opened in Hangzhou, Beijing, and Silicon Valley.

November 2010 – Supported the first Single's Day (11.11) Taobao shopping festival, with 2.4 billion
PV in 24 hours.

November 2012 – Became the first Chinese cloud service provider to pass ISO27001:2005
(Information Security Management System).

January 2013 – Merged with HiChina for www.net.cn business.

August 2013 – ApsaraDB architecture supported 5000 physical machines in a single cluster.

December 2014 – Defended a 14-hour long DDoS attack, peaking at 453.8Gbit/s.[3]

May 2014 – Hong Kong data center went online.

October 2015 – Two US data centers went online.

July 2015 – Alibaba Group invested a further US$1 billion to Alibaba Cloud.[4]

August 2015 – Alibaba Cloud's first Singapore data center opened. Singapore is announced as
Alibaba Cloud's overseas headquarters.

October 2015 – MaxCompute took the lead of the Sort Benchmark, sorting 100TB data in 377s
compared with Apache Spark's previous record of 1406s.[5]

October 2015 – Alibaba Cloud Computing Conference was held in Hangzhou and attracted over
20,000 developers.

November 2015 – Supported the 11.11 shopping festival with a record of $14.2 billion transactions
in 24 hours.

April 2016 – Alibaba Cloud partnered with SK Holdings C&C to provide cloud services to Korean and
Chinese companies.
May 2016 – Alibaba Group and SoftBank formalized joint venture to launch cloud services in Japan
that utilize technologies and solutions from Alibaba Cloud.

June 2016 – Alibaba Cloud expanded its data center operations in Singapore with the establishment
of a second availability zone. Alibaba Cloud also achieved two new certifications overseas: Singapore
Multi-Tier Cloud Security (MTCS) standard Level 3, and the Payment Card Industry Data Security
Standard (PCI-DSS).

November 2016 - Alibaba Cloud partnered with Vodafone Germany for Data Center operation and to
provide cloud services to German and European companies.[6][7]

January 2017 – Alibaba became the official cloud services provider of the Olympics.[8]

June 2017 – Alibaba Cloud is placed in the Visionaries quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for
Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide.[9]

July 2017 – Alibaba Cloud official website is changed from intl.aliyun.com to

www.alibabacloud.com.[10]

September 2017 – Alibaba Cloud partners with Malaysia's Fusionex to provide cloud solutions in
Southeast Asia.[11]

October 2017 – Alibaba Cloud partners with Elastic and launches a new service called Alibaba Cloud
Elasticsearch.[12]

October 2017 - Alibaba Cloud Malaysia data center commences operations.[13]

December 2017 - Alibaba Cloud India data center commences operations.[14]

December 2017 - Alibaba Cloud received the C5 standard certification from German Federal Office
for Information Security (BSI) for its datacenters in Germany and Singapore.[15]

February 2018 - Alibaba Cloud Indonesia data center commences operations.[16]

Data Center Regions

Alibaba Cloud has 19 regional data centres globally, including China North, China South, China East,
US West, US East, Europe, United Kingdom, Middle East, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia,
Malaysia, India, and Indonesia.

The Data Center in Germany is operated by Vodafone Germany (Frankfurt)[6][7] and certified with
C5.

Products

Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing IaaS, PaaS, DBaaS and SaaS, including services such as e-
commerce, big data, Database, IoT, Object storage (OOS), Kubernetes[17] and data customization
which can be managed from Alibaba web page or using aliyun command line tool.

POLARDB
POLARDB is a RDBMS (relational database management system) developed by Alibaba. It uses a
distributed shared-storage architecture.[18]

History

POLARDB was first released in September 2017 for beta testing, and commercialized in April
2018.[19] A major update was released in 2019, providing compatible features with MySQL, Oracle
Database and PostgreSQL.[20]

In 2018, a paper about POLARDB's file system PolarFS was published in VLDB conference 2018[21]

In 2019, a paper about POLARDB storage engine X-Engine was published in SIGMOD 2019[22]

On November 11, 2019, POLARDB supported sales activity during Singles' Day event.[23]

Features

POLARDB is a Cloud-Native database, providing up to 100TB in storage, and up to 88vCPUs and

710GB of memory for computation[24]

AnalyticDB

AnalyticDB is an online analytical processing (OLAP) database system on Alibaba cloud.[25] It offers
both PostgreSQL[26] and MySQL[27] versions. It was developed for high concurrent data processing
with minimal delays and real-time analytical queries in petabyte (PB) scale. It runs on over 2000
physical machines on Alibaba Cloud.[25]

It uses a read/write decoupling architecture with independent read nodes and write nodes, as well
as a set of coordinators for communication. It also supports a systematized index engine and a
directed acyclic graph (DAG) execution framework.

The system works for internal business operations of the Alibaba Group and its external clients from
a variety of business sectors, including entertainment, logistics, e-commerce, meteorological
analysis, finance, and public transit, among others.