Just no
Cloud, China, uncertain pricing.
That certainly cuts down the list of likely customers. I guess some civil servant will be ready for a big Alibaba cloud project followed by a move to the private sector to work for Alibaba.
Alibaba Cloud has launched in the UK, the Chinese cloud purveyor has declared, as it prepares to take on dominant player AWS and the other also-rans. Yeming Wang, GM of Alibaba Cloud’s EMEA outpost, who spoke to journalists at a briefing last week, noted that Britain’s “public cloud market is the largest in Europe.” Alibaba’s …
I welcome our red-flag-waving overlords - At least they think logically.... don't believe in "creationism" and think that the hillbilly cousin of the Tango Man who wears a Merkin on his head, is fit to be President, whilst giving him access to nuclear weapons (that he brandishes around like a BB gun).
"China" is a strong point - but so are "Trumpistan" and "Amazon"
Whoever uses cloud and whatever for needs to understand, they are putting their data into the hands of other people - the rationale for it being to put the problems and a part of the cost there as well.
Understanding this, I am very hard pressed to think of China as more dangerous than the UST.
SMARTR Weaponry/NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive Inventory for The Future, but Not as you Know IT Presently
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Methinks Chinese Stealth is both Assured and Guaranteed because Massive Faulty Western Output to Input is Not in Anything's Best Interests. You might like to think an Imperial Chinese Leadership recognises that Fundamental Base Systemic Flaw.
Treat a fool like a genius and intelligence and information is lost in a barren space, but treat a genius like a fool and all hell is liable to break loose. And China is Nobody's Fool Tool.
Actually, been studying up on Alibaba cloud recently. They have pretty comprehensive documentation, and training videos. Certifications as well.
Some are free and the rest are pretty cheap.
Seems Alibaba has made it a point to copy AWS as closely as possible to make it easy to transfer skills across. Even the acronyms and instance sizes are similarly named (EC2->ECS, ELB->SLB, etc).
Give it a spin!