Alibaba, the Chinese ecommerce giant, is expanding its IaaS cloud offering named Aliyun into the United States and in doing so will take on America’s largest e-commerce company, Amazon, and its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services.

Alibaba and Amazon each dominates its country’s e-commerce markets, and they both lead the IaaS markets in their respective nations as well. Now, both looking to move on to each other’s home turf.

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