en.Wedoany.com Reported - Alibaba Cloud has launched a new cloud region in Paris, France, with two availability zones, as part of its plan to roll out enterprise-grade agentic AI services in Europe later this year. This marks the company's third infrastructure hub in Europe, following Germany and the United Kingdom.
The region is now fully operational, offering European customers enterprise-grade cloud services including computing, storage, containerization, networking, security, databases, and development tools. This expansion brings Alibaba Cloud's global network to 32 regions and 105 availability zones.
The deployment in France comes amid growing demand in European countries for local data centers and cloud regions to reduce reliance on U.S. companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Alibaba Cloud stated that the Paris infrastructure was designed with data sovereignty in mind, aiming to comply with European regulatory frameworks covering data privacy, cybersecurity, and resilience.
Alibaba Cloud noted that the launch of the new region in France coincides with accelerating demand in Europe across industries including retail, software development, AI-driven creative platforms, and sports technology. The company will introduce a suite of agentic AI services in this region, including AgentRun (a one-stop AI agent development platform), STAROps (an intelligent operations platform), and ACS Agent Sandbox (providing hardware-level security isolation and reducing operational costs). Additionally, Alibaba Cloud will bring Agent Security Centre, AI Security Guardrails 2.0, and Agentic SOC to the region, covering the complete agent lifecycle from development and debugging to deployment security.
Dr. Li Feifei, Chief Technology Officer and President of International Business at Alibaba Cloud, stated that this expansion aligns with the company's strategy to bring a full-stack AI+cloud ecosystem to global customers. Last year, Alibaba Group CEO Eddie Wu committed to building "full-stack technical capabilities" in AI chip design, infrastructure, cloud services, and model development.
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