Since its establishment, Alibaba Cloud has been developing and growing continuously. The following are several important stages of Alibaba Cloud's cloud computing layout and development:

1. Start-up stage (2009): Alibaba Cloud was established to provide reliable infrastructure and technical support for Alibaba Group, and launched the cloud computing research and development project "Feitian Plan".

2. Early development stage (2009-2011): Completed the self-developed ultra-large-scale distributed computing system - "Feitian"; launched strategic cooperation with Huawei to jointly promote the development of cloud computing in China; announced the launch of Alibaba Cloud Open Platform and Developer Community.

3. Growth stage (2012-2015): launched a series of cloud services, including OSS object storage service, RDS relational database service, etc.; released the world's first self-developed large-scale commercial distributed file system; officially provided public cloud services to the outside world; reached cooperation with Tencent to jointly promote the development of China's cloud computing industry.

4. Growth stage (2016-present): released a series of new products and services, such as Docker container service, machine learning platform PAI, etc.; accelerated the pace of globalization, and successively opened data centers in Silicon Valley and other places in the United States; released AI chip Hanguang 800; signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Microsoft to jointly promote the development of cloud computing on a global scale.

In summary, Alibaba Cloud has grown into the largest cloud computing service provider in China, providing its customers with a wealth of cloud products and services.

The development history of Alibaba Cloud can be roughly divided into three stages:

In the first stage (2009-2013), under the leadership of Wang Jian, the Alibaba Cloud team completed the technical breakthrough and created the self-developed ultra-large-scale general-purpose computing operating system "Feitian", which met the computing power needs of the retail business.

In the second stage (2014-2016), under the leadership of Hu Xiaoming, Alibaba Cloud services were exported from the internal to the external, and at the same time began to be deployed globally.

In the third stage (2017-2019), Alibaba Cloud achieved large-scale development of cloud services, becoming one of the top three public cloud service providers in the global market, and transformed into an intelligent cloud, becoming the infrastructure for the digital transformation of enterprises in the digital economy era.