Sky's the limit: Alibaba Cloud looks to take on Amazon as it talks up a partnership with BT

Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, is currently in talks to provide its cloud services to BT, in an apparent bid to take on Amazon's dominance of the European market.

Alibaba Cloud is now the fourth largest provider of cloud computing services in the world, following behind Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

Alibaba holds a cloud services deal with Vodafone in Germany, where its first European data centre is located. If the partnership with BT were to look similar, business customers would be able to purchase Alibaba Cloud hosting and services from BT without the need for separate billing.

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