Alibaba to step up cloud computing expansion

Alibaba Group Holding, China’s biggest e-commerce company, plans to ratchet up the expansion of its cloud computing ecosystem with more strategic partnerships and services, intensifying its global competition with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft.

Chief technology officer Jeff Zhang Jianfeng, who serves as president of subsidiary Alibaba Cloud, said the new initiative will make the 10-year-old business unit “a more technologically inclusive platform” at the company’s cloud summit in Beijing on Thursday….

Subsidiary Alibaba Cloud, which turns 10 this year, has become the e-commerce giant’s main business development focus.