Alibaba Cloud is playing up its focus and investment in Asia as a key competitive advantage over its US competitors, while remaining coy over how the US government’s treatment of Huawei may potentially impact other Chinese technology vendors. Executives from Alibaba’s cloud business point to the company’s data centre footprint in the region as well as market share as indication it is edging out other global market players.
The Hangzhou-based vendor currently operates 47 availability zones across 14 cloud regions in Asia-Pacific, including 15 availability zones outside mainland China in Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, and Australia. Across the region, it runs more than 200 network nodes.