Cryptopedia - Aleph Cloud

## What Is Aleph Cloud (ALEPH)? Aleph Cloud is an open-source, crosschain network that provides decentralized databases, including **database storage, computing resources, AI and a decentralized identity (DID) framework**. The core mission of Aleph Cloud is to help decentralized applications and protocols eliminate centralized components from their stack, **enabling a fully decentralized architecture**. You can think of Aleph Cloud as a *decentralized alternative to AWS or Firebase*. It is particularly focused on supercharging the DeFi ecosystem.