Alibaba’s cloud computing unit officially opens its Hong Kong data center

Alibaba Group’s cloud computing unit has officially opened its Hong Kong data center, making it the fourth of such facility and a week after it launched its third in Beijing. Aliyun on Monday formally launched the new Hong Kong site, which is jointly built and operated with Hong Kong’s Towngas Telecom. The company said in a blogpost that the local data center will support customers in China as well as in Southeast Asia.