Alibaba Cloud is beefing up its data center infrastructure in key regions across the globe, announcing plans to establish new cloud regions in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands over the coming year. It will also expand its existing data center capacity in Malaysia, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, France and Hong Kong over the same period.
The company currently operates 107 availability zones in 31 regions around the world. According to Synergy Research Group, Alibaba Cloud has a 4% share in the cloud market, compared to Amazon's 28%, Microsoft's 20%, Google's 15% and Oracle's 4%.
Feifei Li, Chief Technology Officer and President of International Business of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, said in a statement AI proliferation has created "demand for both scalable infrastructure and more accessible AI capabilities."
“We are expanding our global cloud footprint to bring computing resources closer to customers and partners, while continuing to evolve our AI technologies to help enterprises deploy models, optimize multi-model workloads and create new AI-powered applications," Li added.
Alibaba Cloud also announced new AI tools for customers, including Smart Studio, Smart Fusion and Smart Vision.
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