On June 7, Alibaba cloud and Saudi Telecom Corporation (STC) jointly announced in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, that the two data centers in Riyadh were officially opened and operated by a joint venture (SCCC) jointly established by the two sides, taking the lead in providing public cloud services to the Saudi market. Earlier, Saudi Telecom announced that it had jointly established a cloud computing joint venture with Alibaba cloud and Yida capital.
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Saudi Telecom is the largest mobile and telecom operator in the Middle East and North Africa. Previously, it has established a cooperative relationship with Alibaba cloud to expand the service scope of Alibaba cloud to all parts of Saudi Arabia. It is reported that the two new Saudi data centers will be operated by SCCC, covering elastic computing, storage, network to database, etc.
At present, Alibaba cloud operates 84 availability zones in 27 regions around the world and has the largest infrastructure in Asia. According to the latest Gartner data, in 2021, Alibaba cloud ranked third in the global cloud computing market and first in the Asia Pacific market; The global market share is 9.55%.