Alibaba Cloud, e-commerce giant Alibaba Group’s cloud computing subsidiary, is looking to fire up its international expansion and narrow the gap with Amazon Web Services through closer ties with so-called managed services providers.
The Hangzhou-based company recently named Datapipe, a privately held US information technology services provider, as its first international partner tasked to help ease the cloud set-up for Chinese organisations venturing abroad and multinational firms entering mainland China.
Source: Alibaba to fast-track expansion of cloud business with key partners | South China Morning Post