Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud is the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group and the largest cloud provider in China. Its security products exist to protect workloads running on its own platform rather than to be bought separately, which is the same pattern as the other cloud providers in this index. Cloud Firewall, the product listed here, is a managed firewall service for traffic entering, leaving and moving between workloads in Alibaba Cloud, with intrusion prevention and traffic visibility built in. It sits alongside the platform's anti-DDoS, web application firewall and host protection services. It cannot be deployed outside Alibaba Cloud, it is billed as part of cloud consumption rather than licensed, and the malware laboratories do not test it. A reader comparing it with an appliance firewall here is comparing two different kinds of purchase.

Country

🇨🇳China

Headquarters

🇨🇳Hangzhou, China

Year Established

2009

Employees

20,000Estimated by LLM

Customers

5M organisations (2024)Vendor states: Global Leader in AI & Cloud Services - Alibaba Cloud

Users

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Revenue

≈ $22.1B (2026)CN¥158.1B as published · converted at an approximate rateSource: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (SEC Form 6-K Ex. 99.1; Cloud Intelligence Group segment, FY ended March 31, 2026)

Website

https://www.alibabacloud.com/

Status

Active