On March 30, Alibaba Cloud announced that its first data center in South Korea was officially put into use, providing local customers with localized cloud computing services. In the past year, Alibaba Cloud's three data centers in Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Korea have been opened one after another. The number of global availability zones has grown to 82, covering 26 regions, making it the largest cloud computing platform in Asia.
Alibaba Cloud Global Infrastructure Layout
In recent years, Alibaba Cloud has developed rapidly in overseas markets. Data shows that the size of Alibaba Cloud's overseas market has grown by more than 10 times in the last three years. With the development of the market scale, Alibaba Cloud has speed up the deployment of infrastructure in Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Korea and other Asian pacific countries and areas. It has built 3 data centers in Indonesia, and become the first international cloud company to set up localised data center in Philippines.
Alibaba Cloud entered Korean Market in 2016, and provided cloud service for local company clients in the field of retail, finance, manufacture, logistics, media, Internet, etc. It also has partnership with local companies including Megazone, Lascom, Bankware Global, etc.. With the support of Korean data centers, Alibaba Cloud provides more extensive cloud products and services for Korean market, covering a wide range of aspects from Internet, storage, security, database, AI to industrial solutions.
“We open data center in Korea is to satisfy the needs of digital transformation of our Korean clients. Through data center based in Korea, we will continue to provide cloud computing technology and solutions for local clients to support companies with successful digital transformation.” SONG Ziji, general manager of Alibaba Cloud Japan and South Korea, said.
In recently years, Alibaba Cloud keep putting efforts in Korean market and build localised team as well as recruiting and training local talents specialising in digital area According to the introduction, in the future,, Alibaba Cloud will train more than 2,000 IT talents to support the local digital innovation.
In Gartner report, Alibaba Cloud ranks the third in global cloud computing service provider list and the 1st in the Asian Pacific list. The market share in Asian Pacific market of Alibaba Cloud has rising to 9.5% from 3.7% in 2016, and the market share in the global has increasing for a continuing 5 years.
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