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Alibaba Cloud Global Infrastructure

By Pablo Puig

March 28, 2023 - 4 min

Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Alibaba Cloud was named by IDC as the world’s fastest-growing provider in the global public cloud market. Global market research organizations like Gartner and IDC have recognized Alibaba Cloud as the No.1 Public Cloud Provider in China and APAC. Alibaba Cloud’s data centers will further expand Alibaba Cloud’s global ecosystem and footprint. The additional locations will provide customers with the potential for more responsive network communications. Meanwhile, Alibaba Cloud’s products, including data storage and analytics services, enterprise-level middleware, and cloud security services are designed to be available in more markets. Alibaba Cloud supports code compliance by ensuring independent third-party certificates and audits.

Regions and Availability Zones on Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud is distributed across 70 countries and serves more than 3 million+ customers worldwide and collaborates with 10,000+ global partners. There are regions in mainland China and outside China. As of now, Alibaba Cloud has 85 availability zones across 28 regions globally. Alibaba Cloud is constantly growing and expanding its services and new regions and availability zones will be added to the global infrastructure like the one that was recently announced in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia).

When selecting the services that you need, you should choose the closest to the geographical location of your users for faster access.

Availability zones (AZ) are physical areas within a region that have their own independent power grids and networks. The latency of connections between instances within the same zone is lower.

Bandwidths provided in regions outside mainland China apply to users in those regions but, if the users of your services are located in mainland China, you should not select regions outside mainland China because they may experience high latency when using those regions.

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Sustainability in Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud is on track to meet carbon reduction targets as it upgrades server-storing data centers around the world and aims to have its global data centers running entirely on clean energy by 2030.

Alibaba Cloud data centers use green technologies in over five of its data centers which are the world’s only liquid cooling clusters deployed on such a large scale. For example, For example, Alibaba Cloud’s Zhangbei data center earned a Green Power Consumption Certificate from the Beijing Electric Power Exchange Center in 2021. Water-cooling technology at East China Data Center ensures free cooling for 90% of its operating time, driving down energy consumption by more than 80% compared to mechanical cooling. Alibaba Cloud Hangzhou data center saves 70 million kilowatt-hours of electricity each year.

On a large-scale waste incineration power generation unit in Southwest China, Alibaba Cloud uses AI algorithms to help customers increase the incineration efficiency of solid waste by 2.6%. This helped reduce carbon emissions by about 48% compared to before. In Panzhihua Iron and Steel, with intelligent technologies, 1.2 kilograms of iron can be saved for every ton of steel produced. In Hangzhou the congestion rate is reduced by 15% through smart transportation, effectively reducing the carbon emissions caused by traffic jams.

To show its convictions, Alibaba Cloud launched the Energy Expert platform to encourage people to adopt low-carbon behaviors and be environmentally accountable. The partnership between Alibaba and NTU focuses to develop multiple AI applications by leveraging NTU and Alibaba’s expertise in natural language processing, machine learning, and cloud computing across areas such as retail, urban transport, and healthcare.

How Rahi Can Support Businesses Adopt Alibaba Cloud

We are a global IT solutions provider that has extensive experience helping businesses adopt Alibaba Cloud.
Our team of experts can provide a range of services to support your adoption of the Alibaba Cloud platform, including:

  • Cloud Assessment and Planning: Our experts can comprehensively assess your IT environment and business requirements to determine the best strategy for adopting Alibaba Cloud.
  • Cloud Migration: Our team can help you migrate your existing applications and data to Alibaba Cloud, ensuring a smooth and efficient transition.
  • Managed Services: We provide ongoing managed services to ensure that your Alibaba Cloud environments are optimized for performance and security and that any issues are quickly resolved.
  • Our team has already helped many Western companies successfully adopt and integrate Alibaba Cloud, and we can also bring that expertise to your business. With our support, you can leverage the power of Alibaba Cloud to drive your digital transformation and grow your business.

    Author

    • Pablo is an IT professional specializing in cloud computing technologies for the past 7 years. With a special focus into the China market and the Chinese technologies, he has been supporting international businesses on their cloud journey to China. Pablo has received multiple awards and recognitions from AWS, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent Cloud for his knowledge and success delivering solutions to customers.

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