On December 15, Alibaba Cloud announced the opening of its third data center in Tokyo, Japan, to meet rapidly growing customer demand. Since the beginning of this year, Alibaba Cloud has added 6 data centers in overseas markets, located in Saudi Arabia, Germany, Thailand, South Korea and Japan. In the past three years, Alibaba Cloud’s revenue in overseas markets has increased by more than 10 times. Gartner data shows that Alibaba Cloud ranks first in the Asia-Pacific market share, surpassing Amazon and Microsoft.
While expanding the infrastructure layout, Alibaba Cloud also focuses on the ecological construction of overseas markets. This year, Alibaba Cloud has set up six overseas service centers, located in Portugal, Mexico, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai and other places, to improve service and delivery experience in overseas markets. Alibaba Cloud stated that in the next three years, it will invest 7 billion yuan in the construction of an international localization ecosystem, and build localized products and ecosystems in overseas markets.
In the Japanese market, Alibaba Cloud has opened the first and second data centers in 2016 and 2019, established a local company, and used local teams to serve the local market. It has served companies in various fields such as games, manufacturing, retail, and automobiles. At the Tokyo Olympics last year, Alibaba Cloud and the Olympic Broadcasting Service (OBS) jointly created OBS Cloud, which supported the first cloud broadcast in the history of the Olympics, reducing the area of the broadcast center at the Tokyo Olympics by 25% and reducing the number of staff by 27%. .
During the Tokyo Olympics, the President of the International Olympic Committee took a photo with the Alibaba Cloud mascot “Yun Xiaobao”
Recently, Alibaba Cloud announced a cooperation with Japan’s JP Games and clothing company TSI to support JP Games in building PEGASUS WORLDKIT, a metaverse engine, and set up a virtual space on the cloud to build streets, shops, plazas and other facilities, so that consumers can use VR and other ways to “virtual shopping” in the space.
In order to meet the fast-growing business needs in the Japanese market, Alibaba Cloud officially launched the third data center in Tokyo, forming a more reliable and highly flexible 3AZ availability zone in Japan, providing the local area with rich cloud resources. Computing products, including storage, network, elastic computing, security, database and developer services, etc.
At the same time, Alibaba Cloud has launched a series of leading cloud products for the Japanese market, such as artificial intelligence services such as GPU instances, AI acceleration engines, and cloud-native AI Suite, which are used for machine learning reasoning and training, high-performance computing, and graphics virtualization. , automotive and other industries to provide support for artificial intelligence needs.
Currently, Alibaba Cloud operates 86 availability zones in 28 regions around the world, and is the cloud computing platform with the largest infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific market. According to Gartner data, Alibaba Cloud has the third largest market share in the world and the first in Asia-Pacific. In 2021, Alibaba Cloud will have a market share of more than 25% in the Asia-Pacific region, and a market share of more than 20% in countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia.
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