Source | Serverless Official Account
In the first "Cloud Native User Survey Report" released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Alibaba Cloud Serverless products accounted for 66% of the domestic serverless users based on the technical training and rich application practices during the Double Eleven. %, far exceeding the sum of other cloud vendors, is considered to be the first choice for domestic serverless users .
Alibaba Cloud Function Computing (FC for short): the largest user scale and the most widely used
Alibaba Cloud is the first cloud computing vendor to provide serverless computing services. Function Computing (FC for short) is the serverless product with the largest user scale and the most widely used. It is also the first serverless product that supports the hybrid scaling and prepaid model of reserved/according to the amount of instances . Function calculation FC supports more than one million functions, calls hundreds of billions of times a month, 50ms cold start, 3ms hot recovery, 100 milliseconds of extreme flexibility, and stably supports Alibaba's double 11 million QPS peak. At the Trusted Cloud Conference of the Academy of Information and Communications Technology in July this year, Alibaba Cloud Function Computing FC passed the Trusted Cloud Function-as-a-Service certification with full scores in all 21 tests.
Alibaba Cloud is committed to building a leading serverless developer ecosystem . Functional Computing FC provides a complete back-end cloud service and developer tools, such as event bus EventBridge, Serverless workflow, developer framework, command line tools, Web IDE, etc. Starting from the developer experience, Serverless-tools and Serverless applications are launched Center to create a more open, standard, and vendor-free serverless community. In addition, function computing FC also supports container mirroring, which is deeply integrated with the container ecology.
Aliyun SAE: A dark horse in the serverless field
In this survey, Alibaba Cloud SAE (Serverless App Engine), as a "dark horse", performed very well. SAE is an application-oriented Serverless PaaS. With zero threshold, zero transformation, and zero container foundation, you can enjoy the technical dividends brought by Serverless + K8s + microservices, and it is more suitable for direct use by PaaS users.
(Comparison of non-Serverless solution and SAE extreme flexibility solution)
Compared with other serverless products, SAE does not need to modify the programming model, nor does it need to modify any business code. The migration cost from ECS to SAE is very low. SAE can start and stop the development and test environment with one key, and it can be used immediately, and it can be used on demand and billed by the minute. At the same time, SAE provides a wealth of flexible strategies, supports timing flexibility and monitoring flexibility, and can save costs in non-promotional environments. SAE eliminates manual operation and maintenance, automatically integrates infrastructure products such as SLB/SLS/NAS, and supports three deployment methods of WAR, JAR, and mirroring, so that no-container-based novice users can also enjoy the technical dividends of Kubernetes.
Ripple forward! Diverse scenes and rich practice
Alibaba’s serverless practice is in a leading position in the industry. Not only Taobao, Tmall, Alipay, Dingding, Fliggy, Xianyu, Yuque, etc. have already applied serverless to their production business, but the serverless products on Alibaba Cloud are also helping Weibo. Tens of thousands of enterprise customers such as, Graphite Documents, GSX, Timing, Unilever, etc. have successfully implemented Serverless, covering full-stack front-end applications, small programs, new retail, interactive gaming, online education and other industry-wide application scenarios. Function calculation FC supports personalized image processing on Weibo, with extreme flexibility in 100 milliseconds, processing billions of requests per day, and reducing overall costs by 35%. SAE supports the online learning of 7 million users on the Timing online education platform, zero-renovation of the serverless microservice architecture, and a 30% reduction in computing costs.
Behind these serverless practices are the four core technologies of Alibaba Cloud's infrastructure-the fourth generation of Dragon Architecture, Alibaba Cloud Sandbox Container 2.0, Alibaba Cloud Storage, and Alibaba Cloud Network. They provide a solid foundation and foundation for Serverless. Strong core competitiveness. In addition to the functional computing FC and SAE products, the Alibaba Cloud Serverless product matrix also includes Serverless Kubernetes for container orchestration, and ECI for container instances, which constitute the most complete serverless product family among all cloud vendors.