Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud serves as the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. It delivers a comprehensive suite of cloud services to global customers, encompassing elastic computing, databases, storage, network virtualisation, large-scale computing, security, big data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) services. According to Gartner, Alibaba has been recognised as the leading IaaS provider in the Asia-Pacific region by USD revenue since 2018. IDC has also ranked it among the world’s top public cloud IaaS service providers continuously from 2018 onwards.