Latest Feature Updates Across Alibaba Cloud AI, Big Data, and Search Platforms

Artificial Intelligence Platform PAI

Feature optimization: DLC task status upgrade v2.0 merges “Queueing” and “Pre‑allocation” into a single “Queueing” state for clearer task status.

New region: Training service now available in Frankfurt, Germany.

Billing support: DLC pay‑as‑you‑go tasks can be distinguished by type via system tags.

Bid‑type tasks: DLC now supports bidding tasks on general‑purpose compute resources, reducing cost.

Designer: Supports aggregated execution of large‑model data preprocessing pipelines.

Quota: Lingjun AI quota supports multiple VSWs within a VPC.

Model Gallery: Launched in Hong Kong, Japan, Indonesia, Germany, and Virginia, offering zero‑code model training, compression, evaluation, and deployment.

Real‑time Computing Flink Edition

New feature: Materialized tables simplify batch and stream pipelines and provide a consistent development experience.

Open‑source Big Data Platform E‑MapReduce

EMR on ECS released versions EMR‑5.18.1 and EMR‑3.52.1.

Gateway: Two gateway types enable task submission to fully managed Spark.

StarRocks: Supports cache analysis reports with example use cases.

Data Lake Fabric (DLF)

DLF 2.0 introduces HiveCatalog compatible with open‑source HMS.

Paimon Catalog adds file directory (Volume) management via ObjectTable.

View management feature reduces query complexity.

External table management enables reading external data sources.

Intelligent Open Search OpenSearch

Vector search version adds QGraph algorithm, reducing index size to 1/8 with multiple‑fold performance gains.

CAGRA algorithm with GPU acceleration is now available.

Integration with DataWorks allows seamless data synchronization to OpenSearch.

Vector Search Service Milvus Edition

Supports single‑zone high availability for new and existing clusters.

Kernel upgraded to 2.4.17 with white‑screen upgrade capability.

New node specifications for Proxy, Data, and Query nodes.

Alibaba Cloud also launched a free‑trial program for its big‑data and AI products, including MaxCompute, Hologres, Flink, and PAI; users can click “Read original” to view detailed trial rules.