Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud is the digital technology and intelligence backbone business of Alibaba Group. It offers a complete suite of cloud services to customers worldwide, including proprietary servers, elastic computing, storage, network, security, database and big data. Alibaba Group is China’s largest provider of public cloud services by revenue in 2021, including PaaS and IaaS services, according to IDC. It is also the world’s third largest and Asia Pacific’s largest IaaS provider by revenue in 2021 in U.S. dollars, according to Gartner’s April 2022 report.