Initiation of Apsara (Feitian) Project

Alibaba Cloud officially started the Apsara distributed operating system project, a visionary endeavor to build Alibaba's own cloud infrastructure from scratch, laying the foundation for all subsequent cloud services including Table Store.

Significance

This marked Alibaba's strategic shift from relying on external infrastructure to building its own massively scalable cloud platform, enabling independent innovation in core technologies like distributed databases.