Alibaba: Microsoft, Amazon are friends – not rivals

Amazon and Microsoft are “friends” not rivals of Alibaba in the cloud computing space, a top exec at the Chinese e-commerce giant told CNBC.

The comments come just a few days after Alibaba opened a data centre in Silicon Valley – its first on US turf in a cloud market dominated by Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

But Ethan Yu, the international head of Alibaba’s cloud division, Aliyun, told CNBC that the company was not in competition with its US counterparts.

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