Alibaba Group's Founding of Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun)

Alibaba Group officially established Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) with the vision of building a robust cloud computing platform to support its own operations and eventually offer services to external customers.

Significance

This laid the foundational infrastructure for all future Alibaba Cloud services, including its WAF. The internal demands of Alibaba's e-commerce served as a proving ground for the nascent cloud technologies.