Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud (NYSE: BABA) is a publicly traded IaaS & Developer Cloud company founded in 2009 and based in Hangzhou, China.
Alibaba Cloud was launched by Alibaba Group and is headquartered in Hangzhou, China. Founded in 2009, it is listed as a public company under the ticker NYSE: BABA through its parent. Its core infrastructure product is Elastic Compute Service (ECS), which provides scalable virtual server instances with on-demand usage-based billing, serving as the foundation for many other Alibaba Cloud services. Its Model Studio platform, also branded Alibaba Cloud Bailian, gives developers access to the proprietary Qwen model family and third-party models through official and OpenAI-compatible APIs, with tools for prompt experimentation, agent building, and tool integration. Revenue is generated through usage-based cloud service fees. The company's capital position is that of a division within a public parent.
Alibaba Cloud pairs a general-purpose IaaS offering, Elastic Compute Service, with Model Studio, a platform for building generative AI applications that combines the proprietary Qwen model family with third-party models including DeepSeek, Kimi, and GLM. Its customer base spans enterprises across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, and its engineering audience ranges from teams moving prototypes into production to developers calling models without managing inference infrastructure. As a cloud unit of a publicly listed parent, it operates within a headcount range of 5,000 to 10,000.
At a glance
Total raised
Undisclosed
Headcount
5k-10k
Headquarters
Hangzhou
ChinaFounded
2009
Status
Public
Subsector
Cloud & Edge Computing, ranked
Top 25 Cloud & Edge Computing companies →Funding history
Total raised
—
Rounds tracked
0
No dated funding rounds on file. This company is privately held and may be raising or operating on undisclosed capital.
