Founded in 2009, Alibaba Cloud is the world's leading cloud computing and artificial intelligence technology company. It is committed to providing safe and reliable computing and data processing capabilities through online public services, making computing and artificial intelligence a common technology.
Alibaba Cloud serves leading enterprises in manufacturing, finance, government affairs, transportation, medical care, telecommunications, energy and many other fields, including large enterprise customers such as China Unicom, 12306, Sinopec, PetroChina, Philips, Huada Gene, and star Internet companies such as Weibo, Zhihu and Hammer Technology. In the challenging application scenarios such as Tmall Double 1 1 Global Carnival and 12306 Spring Festival travel rush grabbing tickets, Alibaba Cloud has maintained a good running record [1].
Alibaba Cloud has deployed high-efficiency and energy-saving green data centers around the world, providing endless energy power for the new world of Internet of Everything with clean computing. At present, its service areas include China (North China, East China, South China and Hongkong), Singapore, the United States (East and America), Europe, the Middle East, Australia and Japan.
In 20 14, Alibaba Cloud helped users resist the biggest DDoS attack in the history of the global internet, with the peak traffic reaching 453.8Gb[2] per second [2]. In the CloudSort project of Sort Benchmark 20 16 sorting contest, Alibaba Cloud broke the AWS record of 4.51$/TB with the sorting cost of 1.44$/TB [3]. In Sort Benchmark 20 15, Alibaba Cloud used the self-developed distributed computing platform ODPS to sort 100TB data in 377 seconds, which set a new world record of Apache Spark 1406 seconds [3].