Alibaba’s Cloud Arm Aliyun to Open Singapore Data Center in September
Aliyun, the cloud arm of Chinese e-commerce website Alibaba, is on course to open its new Singapore-based data center in September of this year. The center is part of a $1 billion investment that will see Aliyun establish data centers in a number of regions including in the Middle East and Europe. The Singapore center is designed to cater for customers in the Southeast Asian region and it represents a challenge to traditional cloud services providers such as Amazon Web Services, or AWS - Aliyun has the stated aim of overtaking AWS in the next 4 years.
Aliyun currently caters for over 1.8 million customers with a focus on Chinese companies and Chinese government agencies. The new Singaporean data center is the company’s second outside China, its first being launched in Silicon Valley in March of this year. The Singapore center is earmarked to offer a range of cloud services including cloud storage and real-time access, database services, server load balancing, and data caching and storage. It will also offer services to protect against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Aliyun is allowing companies to purchase these services before the official September launch date.
Alongside being the host of Aliyun’s new data center, the city state will become the center of Aliyun’s operations outside China. This could be great news for Singapore’s economy as Aliyun’s cloud revenue is experiencing considerable growth. For the year ending June 30, 2015, the company’s revenues had grown 106% on the same period the year before, while its quarterly results saw an increase of 82% on the previous quarter.
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