My 2026 Milestone #1: Achieved Alibaba Cloud Product Capability Certification (AI Stack Delivery Engineer)!

On March 5, 2026, I achieved the Product Capability Certification: Apsara Stack AI Stack Delivery under Alibaba Cloud. This certification is currently more recognized within China and the Alibaba Cloud partner ecosystem, so I'd like to share some context for my global followers about what it represents - and why it matters in today's AI infrastructure landscape. Why Does Alibaba Cloud Offer an On‑Prem AI Solution? When most people think of Alibaba Cloud, they think of public cloud services - ECS, OSS, databases, and cloud-native platforms. However, enterprise AI adoption has introduced new requirements: Large Language Model (LLM) deployment GPU-intensive workloads Data sovereignty and regulatory compliance Low-latency internal AI systems Fully private AI environments Many industries - especially finance, government, telecom, and large manufacturing - cannot move sensitive data to public cloud AI services. To address this, Alibaba Cloud provides AI Stack as part of Apsara Stack, its ent