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).

2025 Revenue

Founded

2009

Headcount

4,300

Headquarters

China

Primary Segment

Enterprise cloud

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

15

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On September 18, 2026, Alibaba Cloud integrated its Qwen AI cockpit solution into the cloud-based intelligence hub of BYD’s intelligent cockpit system, supporting multi-turn conversations, complex intent understanding, task orchestration, and long-term memory. Earlier on the same day, Alibaba Cloud, a provider of AI infrastructure for Alibaba Group, was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Generative AI Model Providers. This followed the Alibaba Cloud Messaging team's paper, "Replication-Free Failover: Protocol-Fenced Takeover for Stateful Services," being admitted to the FSE 2026 Industry Papers Track, a CCF-A venue in software engineering.

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Alibaba Cloud offers 11 products in the telecoms tech, connectivity and cloud, pro AV, media tech and enterprise tech industries. Alibaba Cloud's product portfolio comprises of telecoms network infrastructure, enterprise security, connectivity and distribution services, video processing and playout, conferencing systems and UC, video business systems, content supply chain and enterprise cloud.
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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, the largest of which is cybersecurity and intrusion detection. For full access to Alibaba Cloud's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.
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Alibaba Cloud's customers primarily consist of wholesale, computer Hardware Manufacturing and broadcast Media Production and Distribution companies. Examples of Alibaba Cloud's customers include CP Axtra, MNC Media and Nvidia. Examples of Alibaba Cloud's suppliers include To The New and Irdeto.

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