Alibaba Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Alibaba Cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a globally distributed network service designed to accelerate the delivery of web content, streaming media, and dynamic applications to users worldwide. It achieves this by caching content at strategically located edge nodes (Points of Presence)…

Key facts

First appeared: 2014
Category: technology
Problem solved: Slow website and application loading times, high latency for geographically distant users, excessive load on origin servers, and high bandwidth costs associated with direct content delivery from centralized data centers.
Platforms: Alibaba Cloud

Related technologies

Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS)
Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS)
Alibaba Cloud Domain Name Service (DNS)
Alibaba Cloud Anti-DDoS
Alibaba Cloud Function Compute
Alibaba Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer (SLB)

Notable users

Various e-commerce companies in Asia
Enterprises leveraging Alibaba Cloud infrastructure
Media and entertainment companies
Alibaba Group (Taobao, Tmall, Youku, Alipay)
Gaming companies