Emerging cloud technology: Alibaba Cloud
Recently Alibaba Cloud technology has emerge. Alibaba is one of online retail giants which has shown massive growth in cloud computing business over past few years. Indeed, Alibaba is a leading public cloud service provider in China and 5th largest in the world. Alibaba Cloud provides a vast range of cloud computing services both for international customers and Alibaba group’s own e-commerce ecosystem.
Alibaba Cloud provides high-performance elastic computing power in the cloud and services like data storage, relational databases, big-data processing, anti-DDoS protection and content delivery networks. It is also in the development of large database systems and advanced big data technologies.
“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.”
But what is cloud computing and what are the benefits of those technologies?
Cloud computing is the delivery of on-demand computing resources (including servers, databases, storage, platforms, infrastructure, applications, etc.) over the Internet. Cloud computing can be used on a pay-as-you-go basis, which means you pay just for what you need.
Why move to the cloud?
1. Cost-Efficiency
Cloud computing is a cost-effective solution for storing large amounts of data on the Internet.
2. Data Security
Data security in cloud computing is one of the most important characteristics. Cloud providers secure any infrastructure we deploy in the cloud environment, including compute, storage, database and networking resources.
3. Scalability & Speed
With the scalability of cloud computing, when we face to a sudden traffic peak, we can automatically allocate more compute resources to keep our website or application stable and responsive, with no intervention on our part.
4. Elasticity
Cloud computing makes possible to scale up or down resources quickly. So, we can use and pay for only what we need.
5. Unlimited Storage Space
Storing data on the cloud gives us virtually unlimited storage capacity adapting to our demands.
6. Backup & Recovery
Cloud allows to store data across multiple regions for redundancy and reliability. In this way most service providers support data recovery almost in real time.
7. Go Global in Minutes
Cloud computing allows us to deploy our application or website in multiple regions around the world with just a few clicks. [1]
[1] https://www.alibabacloud.com/knowledge/what-is-cloud-computing
