Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) Founding

Alibaba Group officially established Aliyun, its cloud computing subsidiary, under the leadership of Dr. Wang Jian, with the mission to build a world-class cloud platform from scratch.

Significance

This marked the strategic commitment of Alibaba to venture into cloud computing, laying the groundwork for all future cloud services, including OSS. It was a bold move by an e-commerce company into core infrastructure.