Autonomous system
AS37963 ALIBABA-CN-NET Hangzhou Alibaba Advertising Co.,Ltd.
Hosting APNIC
Summary
Alibaba Cloud (China)
cloud hosting compute
Alibaba Cloud / Aliyun (ALIBABA-CN-NET) — the China-based network of Alibaba's cloud division, the largest cloud provider in China.
What it's used for
- Hosting customer workloads on Alibaba Cloud within China, plus Alibaba's own services (e.g. its e-commerce platforms).
Notable
- An IP here identifies Alibaba Cloud as the host; the workload is usually a customer's. Domestic-China traffic is subject to national filtering.
- Distinct from AS45102, which serves Alibaba Cloud's international regions.
Interesting
- Alibaba Cloud dominates the Chinese market much as AWS does globally, and underpins the huge traffic spikes of events like Singles' Day.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
17 upstream, 0 downstream and 31 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS4811 | China Telecom (Group) | 11,406 |
| AS4837 | CHINA UNICOM China169 Backbone | 9,076 |
| AS58461 | No.288,Fu-chun Road | 5,048 |
| AS23724 | IDC, China Telecommunications Corporation | 4,716 |
| AS4816 | China Telecom (Group) | 4,070 |
| AS17621 | China Unicom Shanghai network | 2,303 |
| AS24400 | Shanghai Mobile Communications Co.,Ltd. | 1,972 |
| AS4808 | China Unicom Beijing Province Network | 1,784 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-30, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 456 prefixes · 9.43M addresses IPv6 208 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| CN | China | 664 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS37963- Registry name
- ALIBABA-CN-NET
- Abuse contact
- didong.jc@alibaba-inc.com
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2021-10-27
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 99.7% valid · 949 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 272 authorising AS37963
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 952 of 952 announcements
- Route objects
- 98,981 naming AS37963
Reputation
Classification and threat
Hosting Datacenter or cloud provider. Addresses are servers, not people.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 448 networks and 1,849 prefixes, as published 2026-10-30. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
10 IC3 indicators addresses in this network appear in FBI IC3 cybersecurity advisories.
| Prefix | Advisory | Published |
|---|---|---|
106.14.164.140 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
106.14.184.69 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
106.14.33.83 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
106.14.68.99 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
118.31.35.233 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
120.27.150.114 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
39.104.208.77 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
47.122.42.2 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
47.96.8.186 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
8.148.149.147 | China-Linked Hacking Group QTFY Targets Military and Critical Infrastructure with Malicious Distributed Systems | 2026-08-26 |
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
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