Boldness and Creativity in the Cloud
Named one of the top three global cloud service providers by Gartner,1 Alibaba Cloud enabled by Intel is driving innovation in cloud capabilities for businesses all over the world.
Alibaba Cloud Summit and APSARA Conference
Get insight into the latest cloud technology trends and watch keynotes from industry leaders. Alibaba Cloud is driving digitalization efforts to accelerate service delivery and simplify your deployments.
Why Intel?
Optimized Performance and Visibility
Alibaba uses hardware-enabled resource management tools like Intel® Platform Resource Manager in Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors to collect telemetry data and optimize clusters for hyperscale levels of utilization and performance.
Advanced AI and Privacy Protection
Enabled by Analytics Zoo and by 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors with Intel® SGX and Intel® Deep Learning Boost Vector Neural Network Instructions (VNNI), the Alibaba Cloud can run accelerated machine learning workloads on sensitive data, searches, and ads, helping to reduce risk while exploring powerful AI techniques.
Close Collaboration and Engineering Support
As a strategic partner in cloud computing, Intel works closely with Alibaba to deploy the latest technologies like Intel® Optane™ persistent memory and SSDs to achieve high levels of cloud availability for business customers all over the world.
Featured Workloads in the Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba offers specialized services and instance types for both common and cutting-edge workload types.
Machine Learning and AI
End-to-end machine learning services with data processing, model training, model prediction, and model refinement. AI becomes more accessible than ever with a broad selection of algorithms purpose-built for specific use cases and visualization tools in a simple web interface.
Key features:
- Visualized interface: Access via the web and use drag and drop to experiment and discover your ideal workflow.
- Algorithm selection: AI in the Alibaba cloud supports regression, classification, clustering, text analysis, natural language processing, and more.
- Powerful compute: Accelerate time to results with parallel computing resources for many concurrent workloads.
Learn more about AI in the Alibaba Cloud
Intel® DL boost delivers hardware acceleration for Alibaba AI
Elastic and Secure Compute
Scale up to hundreds of thousands of vCPUs in minutes for a single customer in a single region. With numerous general and advanced compute instances based on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Alibaba Elastic Compute offerings deliver high availability and reliability built in with security.
Key features:
- Scenario-based instance types: Select your service based on individual workload requirements for high efficiency and utilization.
- Meet SLAs: Alibaba Cloud offers a 99.975% availability commitment for individual instances and 99.995% for multiple zones in the same region.
- Flexible billing: Choose between subscription, pay-as-you-go, or reserved instances to help optimize your resources and budget.
Explore elastic compute services
Intel® Optane™ persistent memory supports real-time business scenarios in the Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba PolarDB
Support business-critical database applications with this cloud-native relational database service, compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
Key features:
- Decoupled compute and storage: Optimize costs with dedicated compute nodes for executing SQL read/write and dedicated storage nodes for data storage.
- Stability and security: Active/standby switchovers help prevent data loss and inconsistency, combined with read-only replicas that can be created in minutes.
- Developer support: Always-free PolarDB offers up to 50 GB of storage for developers to experiment and optimize their applications.
Alibaba HPC Cloud Instances
Built with a foundation of Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Alibaba Super Computing Cluster (SCC) instances deliver high-quality network performance, high bandwidth, and low latency for the most demanding workloads.
Key features:
- Maximum performance with up to 96 vCPU cores, up to 512 GB memory, and up to 8 GPU cards within a single instance.
- High-speed interconnect with Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) technology.
- Secure and elastic, capable of deploying new servers in minutes and resizing as needed.
Focus Industries for Alibaba Cloud
Streamline your cloud journey with advanced solutions that are purpose-built for interoperability, manageability, and specific business scenarios. View more Alibaba solutions by industry
Alibaba Enterprise Cloud Services
Compete in the digital era with Alibaba Cloud Apsara Stack hybrid cloud infrastructure. Enterprises can support growth and online services with full-stack capabilities.
Alibaba Cloud Financial Services
Cloud infrastructure, analytics, and AI are converging to transform online services delivery, trend forecasting, and risk modeling.
Alibaba Cloud Retail Transformation
See how smart retail and AI help deepen customer insights and enable businesses to connect with more customers through more channels.
Alibaba Media Solutions
Alibaba offers the tools and cloud solutions to support content streaming, video-on-demand, and media archive services to match pace with the booming media and entertainment market.
Exceptional Cloud Growth in Emerging Markets
The Intel-powered Alibaba Cloud is bringing digitalization to Southeast Asia and other parts of the world, helping businesses discover a new competitive edge to thrive.
Alibaba Cloud Malaysia
Local data centers provide low-latency services with a price advantage, making cloud services more accessible and easier to deploy.
Visit Alibaba Cloud Malaysia
Alibaba Cloud Singapore
Scale IT offerings and make it easier to launch services in China and globally then expand your capabilities with the Alibaba Cloud Marketplace.
Visit Alibaba Cloud Singapore
Alibaba Cloud Indonesia
Elastic computing, database, storage, and more. Access or provide digital services confidently with the support of the free anti-DDoS scrubbing center.
Visit Alibaba Cloud Indonesia
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Alibaba Named VISIONARY by Gartner
Read the full 2021 report on Alibaba’s strengths in the cloud.
