{"id":319,"date":"2018-04-24T10:06:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T10:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.amt.in\/?p=319"},"modified":"2018-04-24T10:06:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T10:06:26","slug":"introduction-to-alibaba-cloud-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.amt.in\/index.php\/2018\/04\/24\/introduction-to-alibaba-cloud-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Alibaba Cloud Services"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alibaba Cloud\u00c2\u00a0a subsidiary of\u00c2\u00a0Alibaba Group, is a global cloud computing company. Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of global cloud computing services to power both international customers’ online businesses and Alibaba Group’s own e-commerce ecosystem.\u00c2\u00a0Alibaba Cloud’s international operations are registered and headquartered in Singapore, and the company has international teams stationed in Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, San Mateo, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.<\/p>\n

Alibaba Cloud offers high-performance, elastic computing power in the cloud. Services are available on a pay-as-you-go basis and include\u00c2\u00a0data storage,\u00c2\u00a0relational databases,\u00c2\u00a0big-data processing,\u00c2\u00a0Anti-DDoS\u00c2\u00a0protection and\u00c2\u00a0content delivery networks\u00c2\u00a0(CDN). At the same time Alibaba Cloud is committed to the research and development of large database systems and advanced big data technologies. Alibaba Cloud’s R&D efforts include the advancement of\u00c2\u00a0IoT\u00c2\u00a0(Internet of Things) technology,\u00c2\u00a0virtual reality, smart homes, automotive networking and information systems, and cloud-based mobile-device operating systems.<\/p>\n

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Outside of the status as the largest cloud computing company in China\u00c2\u00a0, Alibaba Cloud operates in 18 data center regions and 42 availability zones around the globe, and provides solutions that lead the market in international performance and usability, cloud security, and advanced R&D technology. As of June 2017, Alibaba Cloud is placed in the Visionaries’ quadrant of\u00c2\u00a0Gartner’s Magic Quadrant\u00c2\u00a0for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide. With world-class infrastructure and ever-expanding global presence, Alibaba Cloud is dedicated to becoming a leading global cloud services provider.<\/p>\n

Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing\u00c2\u00a0IaaS,\u00c2\u00a0PaaS, and\u00c2\u00a0SaaS, including services such as\u00c2\u00a0e-commerce,\u00c2\u00a0big data,\u00c2\u00a0IoT, and data customization.<\/p>\n

Infrastructure as a service\u00c2\u00a0(IaaS), refers to online services that provide high-level\u00c2\u00a0APIs\u00c2\u00a0used to\u00c2\u00a0dereference\u00c2\u00a0various low-level details of underlying network infrastructure like physical computing resources, location, data partitioning, scaling, security, backup etc.<\/p>\n

Platform as a Service\u00c2\u00a0(PaaS) or\u00c2\u00a0application platform as a Service\u00c2\u00a0(aPaaS) or platform base service is a category of\u00c2\u00a0cloud computing services\u00c2\u00a0that provides a\u00c2\u00a0platform\u00c2\u00a0allowing customers to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app.<\/p>\n

Software as a service\u00c2\u00a0is a software\u00c2\u00a0licensing\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0delivery\u00c2\u00a0model in which\u00c2\u00a0software\u00c2\u00a0is licensed on a\u00c2\u00a0subscription\u00c2\u00a0basis and is centrally\u00c2\u00a0hosted.\u00c2\u00a0It is sometimes referred to as “on-demand software”,\u00c2\u00a0and was formerly referred to as “software plus services” by\u00c2\u00a0Microsoft.<\/p>\n

The above is a brief about Alibaba Cloud Services which was compiled from various sites. Watch this space for more information on latest trends in Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alibaba Cloud\u00c2\u00a0a subsidiary of\u00c2\u00a0Alibaba Group,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,108,7],"tags":[111,110,18],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alibaba","category-cloud-computing","category-techtrends","tag-alibaba","tag-cloud-computing","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.amt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.amt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.amt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.amt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.amt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.amt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/blog.amt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.amt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.amt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.amt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.amt.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}