01 The short version
The natural home for any workload where Asia-Pacific or mainland latency matters commercially, and competitive on price against the American platforms for comparable capacity.
- Leading open-weight model releases reach this platform first, often well before they are convenient to run elsewhere.
- Serverless GPU capacity (Function Compute) is genuinely useful for bursty eval jobs and batch scoring.
- eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) gives you EU residency on the same account and tooling as your APAC footprint.
- International and mainland accounts are separate. Budget a week for that if nobody told you.
02 What we do here
BUILD
Inference on Alibaba
Open-weight models running on Alibaba capacity, gateway routing in front, full cost and usage records underneath, the networking and IAM to hold it together. Deployed in your account with Terraform you keep.
RUN
Operate it monthly
Capacity planning against Alibaba quota and pricing, model rotations, incident response, and a monthly report that reconciles against your actual Alibaba invoice.
FOUNDATION
Accounts, network, IAM
If the Alibaba footprint does not exist yet, or exists as one account somebody made in 2021, we build the landing zone underneath before anything else goes on top.
03 The others
We are not loyal to any of them. The right platform is the one where your data already is, your latency is acceptable and the GPUs are actually available this quarter — and that answer changes.