back to article Alibaba Cloud closing Australian and Indian datacenters

Alibaba Cloud has revealed that it will soon close its datacenter operations in Australia and India – despite previously telling The Register its Australian operations remained intact. Late last week the Chinese cloud champ posted news of the decision, declaring "As part of Alibaba Cloud's infrastructure strategy update, …

  1. Michael Hoffmann Silver badge
    WTF?

    Denying closure and lay-offs while doing just that - how does that fly under Australian labour laws, which are after all quite a bit stronger than, say, the US?

    That said, what reason would anybody have to use their cloud instead of the Big 3, unless you're a) somehow fundamentally, even viscerally against using said Big 3 or b) a Chinese owned or financed subsidiary operating in Australia? Were they better in any way or absolute massively cheaper?

  2. Korev Silver badge
    Childcatcher

    We now know that Alibaba Cloud customers were told that datacenter operations would end in Australia on September 30. Indian customers were given a shorter deadline: July 15.

    Thinks "Wow September's not that long to migrate all your infra" and then reads 15/7 for the Indian deadline! When were the customers informed about this?

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