Alibaba Cloud yesterday announced its first datacenters in Brazil, France, and The Netherlands, plus expansion of its presence in five other countries outside China.

The cloudy offshoot of giant e-tailer Alibaba already operates 91 availability zones in 29 regions, 14 of which are in China – a market in which it enjoys dominant market share thanks to both its solid offerings and the fact that global rivals AWS, Azure, and Google have limited presences in the Middle Kingdom.

Alibaba Cloud’s past expansion saw it focus on markets that enjoy close trade relationships with China – especially in Southeast Asia – a strategy it chose because Chinese companies wanted to use the same cloud wherever they operate and because the large Chinese diaspora around the region is open to working with the M

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