Alibaba Cloud, a privately owned company headquartered in China and a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, with Whale Cloud as a key subsidiary, was founded in 2009. The company employs approximately 4,300 individuals and reported $22.0B in revenue as of 2025. Functioning primarily as an enterprise cloud provider, Alibaba Cloud delivers cloud computing and artificial intelligence services. Its offerings are available on a pay-as-you-go basis and encompass areas such as Elastic Compute, Data Storage, Relational Databases, Big-Data Processing, Anti-DDoS protection, and Content Delivery Networks (CDN).

Revenue

Founded

2009

Headcount

4,300

Headquarters

China

Primary Segment

Enterprise cloud

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

15

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On July 9, 2026, Alibaba's Qwen LLM and multimodal AI model family integrated with over 150,000 smart hardware manufacturers in China, including leading embodied AI and consumer electronics firms, establishing itself as a foundational component for next-generation AI hardware. On the same day, Alibaba also introduced Qoder, an agentic coding platform for real software development, designed to enhance AI-assisted coding from suggestions to end-to-end feature implementation. Earlier on July 9, Alibaba Cloud forecasted a 45% AI growth, indicating an acceleration towards its fastest revenue growth in years. This follows Singapore-based AI tech services firm NCS launching its expanded Sunshine.AI suite, which includes agentic assistants and developer tools, in partnership with Alibaba Cloud. Previously, on July 8, the company detailed its Function Compute for event-driven workloads, outlining architectural patterns and highlighting its suitability for traffic that experiences intermittent spikes in concurrent calls.

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Alibaba Cloud offers 11 products in the connectivity and cloud, telecoms tech, media tech and pro AV industries. Alibaba Cloud's product portfolio comprises of telecoms network infrastructure, conferencing, video processing and playout, enterprise cloud, video business systems, content supply chain, connectivity and distribution services and enterprise security.
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Alibaba Cloud's revenues were over $1B in 2025. Caretta Research has split Alibaba Cloud's revenue into 12 different product categories.
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Alibaba Cloud's customers primarily consist of computer Hardware Manufacturing and broadcast Media Production and Distribution companies. Examples of Alibaba Cloud's customers include MNC Media, Nvidia and CP Axtra. Examples of Alibaba Cloud's suppliers include Irdeto and To The New.

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