Amazon Expands Web Services To China

Amazon will roll out its Amazon Web Services suite to China starting in 2014, TechCrunch reported on December 18.

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    AWS China will compete with Alibaba, a major force in regional eCommerce. Alibaba’s service mirrors aspects of Amazon’s, like commercial solutions for merchants and a cloud-computing platform called Aliyun.

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    The move could stir competition in the regional eCommerce market. As Market Platform Dyanmics CEO Karen Webster explained in a recent piece of commentary, Alibaba is on the cusp of significant growth opportunities.

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