In the announcement, Halo.com said that in order to comply with China laws and regulations and further improve the security and service quality of aws cloud services operated by the company, the company signed the Master Agreement for Selling Assets by Stages with Amazon, and the company will purchase specific business assets related to cloud services based on Amazon cloud technology from Amazon, so as to provide and operate cloud services based on Amazon cloud technology continuously and stably in China. According to the data, Halo.com is a joint venture of Amazon Cloud Services in China, because according to the laws of China, the infrastructure of cloud computing is a part of the Internet data center, which is a key regulatory area of the state. Therefore, when Amazon cloud service entered the China market, it chose to cooperate with Halo.com ... In response to this transaction, Halo.com explained that the acquisition of Amazon AWS China business is conducive to improving the security and service quality of AWS operation services. The acquisition is mainly in response to the latest requirements of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, requiring public cloud enterprises to operate with licenses in China. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology requires manufacturers to promise to meet the corresponding business license requirements and obtain the business license before the end of 20 17. If they have promised, they will not be allowed to operate the business on 20 18.
Therefore, in the face of China government's strict control over the cloud service market, Amazon chose to quit, and another reason is naturally related to its performance. According to the report of China public cloud market in the first half of IDC 2065 438+07, Alibaba Cloud ranked first in China market, followed by Tencent Cloud, Jinshan Cloud, China Telecom and Ucloud, and Amazon's AWS cloud service did not even enter the top five.
The transaction is not Halo.com's acquisition of Amazon China's cloud computing business, but only the purchase of AWS servers and software services according to China's regulatory requirements, which is not within the scope of sale, and is limited to the Beijing area where AWS cooperates with Halo.com, and does not involve AWS's Ningxia area.
A spokesman for Amazon also clarified that the company is still committed to developing its business in China, but in order to comply with China laws, it must sell some physical infrastructure assets.