Alibaba Cloud Services: concise and precise summary
Alibaba Cloud is one of the fastest-growing cloud computing companies in the world. Indeed some researchs suggest that Alibaba Cloud is the world’s fifth largest provider of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and hosted private cloud services with 4 percent of the market. Other analysts have said that the company is the third largest IaaS vendor on the planet. And by all accounts, it is the undisputed cloud computing leader in China.
In this article I want to provide concise and precise information related with Alibaba Cloud products. This article is a summary of [1], you can learn more about Alibaba Clouds solutions across different industries and by different applications at [1] or [2]
Solutions
DATA MIGRATION
Data migration is a critical challenge for businesses, whether migrating data from a physical service to the cloud or switching to a new cloud provider or deployment region. Alibaba Cloud’s Data Migration service offers comprehensive services and resources that will ensure a smooth migration. Users can either follow our selfguided tutorials, or outsource the migration through Alibaba Cloud’s Migration Service, or to one of our partners
WEB HOSTING
Alibaba Cloud offers flexible, low cost web hosting, that is perfect for SMEs, and supports a range of popular content management systems such as WordPress and Joomla!
INTERNET OF THINGS
Alibaba Cloud’s IoT suite has high traffic endurance, handling access requests smoothly, its equipment certification means that each connected device is certified, plus it incorporates secured transmission, device rights management and a reliable message service.
ELASTIC COMPUTING
Alibaba Cloud’s Elastic Compute Service (ECS) is an online computing service that offers elastic and secure virtual cloud servers to cater for all your cloud hosting needs.
Function Compute is Alibaba Cloud’s most popular serverless product, offering a fully hosted environment that eliminates the need to manage infrastructure such as servers, so developers can focus on writing and uploading code. It handles the resource management, auto scaling, and load balancing.
Simple Application Server is a server-based service that allows you to build, monitor and maintain your website with just a few clicks.
Server Load Balancer allows users to manage sudden spikes in traffic, minimize response times and — vitally — maintain 99.9% availability of web applications.
STORAGE
Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) is an easy-to-use service that enables you to store, backup and archive large amounts of data in the cloud. OSS acts as an encrypted central repository, where files can be securely accessed from around the globe. OSS guarantees up to 99.9% availability and is a perfect fit for global teams and international project management.
NETWORKING
Express Connect offers convenient and efficient network services that allow different network environments to communicate directly. This means that even when the connected sites are far away from each other, users benefit from low network latency and high bandwidth communication. This works particularly well for multimedia environments, where low latency is vital, as well as hybrid environments that require private connectivity across on-premise infrastructure, cloud technology and third-party cloud services providers.
SECURITY
Alibaba Cloud is committed to the highest levels of compliance, including Germany’s C5 standard, PCI DSS for payments, HIPAA for healthcare, and the EU GDPR for data protection and privacy.
[1] https://video-intl.alicdn.com/Campaign%20038%20Introducing%20AC%20Whitepaper%20v5e.pdf
[2] https://video-intl.alicdn.com/Campaign%20038%20Introducing%20AC%20Whitepaper%20v5e.pdf
