Alibaba Cloud CDN

Alibaba Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a robust cloud-based service designed to accelerate the delivery of web content to users worldwide. By caching content at strategically located edge nodes, it significantly reduces latency, improves page load times, and enhances user experience for…

Key facts

First appeared: 2014
Category: technology
Problem solved: Alibaba Cloud CDN was created to solve the problems of slow content delivery, high latency, and origin server overload for internet users accessing web content, particularly for Alibaba's vast e-commerce and digital media ecosystems and their global customers.
Platforms: Web (browser-based console), API (RESTful), CLI (Command Line Interface)

Related technologies

Alibaba Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
Alibaba Cloud OSS (Object Storage Service)
Domain Name Systems (DNS)
HTTPS/SSL certificates
Alibaba Cloud ECS (Elastic Compute Service)
Alibaba Cloud DNS

Notable users

Alibaba Group (for Taobao, Tmall, Youku, Alipay, etc.)
Digital media and entertainment companies
E-commerce platforms
Various enterprise customers leveraging Alibaba Cloud for global operations