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First, get to know Alibaba Cloud
1 Overview
- Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Group's cloud computing brand, the world's outstanding cloud computing technology and service provider (cloud computing and artificial intelligence technology company)
- Founded in 2009, with R&D centers and operating institutions in Hangzhou, Beijing, Silicon Valley and other places
- More than 80% are engaged in technical work and have applied for more than one hundred technical patents in China
- Committed to building a public and open data-centric cloud computing service platform, with the help of technological innovation, continuously improving computing capabilities and economies of scale, turning cloud computing into a true public service, and building a new foundation for the next generation of information economy facility
- Provide safe and reliable computing and data processing capabilities in the form of online public services, so that computing and artificial intelligence will become inclusive technologies
- Alibaba Cloud serves leading companies in many fields such as manufacturing, finance, government affairs, transportation, medical care, telecommunications, energy, etc., including large enterprise customers such as China Unicom, 12306, Sinopec, PetroChina, Philips, BGI, as well as Weibo and Zhihu , Hammer Technology and other star Internet companies
- Alibaba Cloud maintains a good operating record in challenging application scenarios such as Tmall Double 11 Global Carnival and 12306 Spring Festival Ticket Purchase
2. Alibaba Cloud log
Alibaba Cloud’s new LOGO starts from calculations: "[-]" comes from commonly used symbols in the code, and represents the
middle of calculation . The "-" represents flowing data. As modern social infrastructure, calculations and data are running anytime, anywhere of
3. Brand slogan
For incalculable value
At the 2015 Yunqi Conference, Alibaba Cloud released a new brand slogan and brand advertisement-"Creating value beyond computing.", which explained Alibaba Cloud's brand positioning and brand value in depth.
In traditional cognition, the term "computing" is too remote and cold for most people. It is a world of code that must be worked hard to crack. The intersection with daily life seems so minimal.
Alibaba Cloud believes that the ultimate meaning of computing is to use the power of numbers to solve problems and create value, making numbers more than numbers, and giving them people's joys, sorrows and joys.
Every time you post a photo on social networking sites;
Every time your mobile wallet has a surplus of one yuan;
Every time you and your friends watch the game in front of the computer, let out a cheer;
Every time when the world welcomes a healthy baby;
Every time when the wind and sunlight bring the cleanest energy...
This is an incalculable value.
4. Cloud computing value
Zeng Ming, chief strategy officer of Alibaba Group, once systematically summarized the value of cloud computing to enterprises.
- Mobile + cloud computing = achieved the "online" of IT services, greatly reducing the threshold of technology.
- Cloud computing is a public service. It is a variable cost and can be used on demand. It is no longer a fixed asset investment, and the cost pressure of start-up companies is greatly reduced.
- Cloud computing turns data into means of production and corporate assets.
- Cloud computing uses a sufficiently low-cost, commercial model to solve the problem of big computing. In the past, everyone would only think of supercomputers. Its operating costs are high, but its response speed is still very slow. When these large Internet applications develop, such as Taobao, hundreds of millions of merchants put forward purchase needs and real-time information matching. Calculation of data. Therefore, cloud computing is a solution for massive data and large computing using distributed methods. Without computing power, we cannot talk about the era of big data, nor about the efficient application of Shanghai data
- At the 2016 Hangzhou Yunqi Conference, Ma Yun proposed five new ideas: "New retail, new manufacturing, new finance, new technology, new energy." Alibaba Cloud is becoming the "five new" economic infrastructure, and its self-developed super-large scale Feitian, a general-purpose computing operating system, can connect millions of servers all over the world into a supercomputer, providing computing power to society in the form of online public services
- Alibaba Cloud President Hu Xiaoming said: In the next 3 to 5 years, cloud computing and big data will not only change within the Internet, but also in industrial manufacturing, agricultural operations, urban transportation, and genetics, medical imaging, education and entertainment. Generate empowerment. "Cloud computing and big data will change the basic ecology of various industries. Alibaba hopes to export its existing capabilities to more innovators, entrepreneurs, government agencies, and domestic and foreign partners.
Second, the overall architecture of Alibaba Cloud
1. Alibaba Cloud development history
Before 2015
In September 2008, Alibaba determined the "cloud computing" and "big data" strategies, and decided to independently develop the large-scale distributed computing operating system "Feitian".
In October 2008, the Feitian team was formally established.
In February 2009, the Feitian team wrote the first line of code in Beijing.
In September 2009, Alibaba Cloud Computing Co., Ltd. was formally established.
In April 2010, Ali Financial’s order loan product "Shepherd Dog" took the first step and successfully launched on the Feitian platform.
In May 2010, Alibaba Cloud was in public beta.
In July 2011, Alibaba Cloud's official website went online and began to provide cloud computing services on a large scale.
In June 2012, Alibaba Cloud supported CCTV's webcast of 24 European Cup matches.
In November 2012, Alibaba Cloud was the first company to obtain the ISO27001 information security management system international certification.
In January 2013, Alibaba Cloud merged with Wanwang domain name and other businesses. In August, Alibaba Cloud became the first company in the world to provide 5K cloud computing service capabilities.
In September 2013, all core systems of Yu'ebao were migrated to Alibaba Cloud, and Tianhong Fund became the largest monetary fund in China. In November, Alibaba Cloud launched financial cloud services, opening a fast channel for Internet finance. In December, Alibaba Cloud Computing won the world's first cloud security international certification gold medal (CSA-STAR).
In May 2014, Alibaba Cloud opened its service in Hong Kong, becoming the first company in China to provide overseas cloud computing services.
In August 2014, Alibaba Cloud released a cloud cooperation plan to recruit 10,000 cloud service providers to build a cloud ecosystem. In July, Alibaba Cloud released the big data computing platform MaxCompute. Small and medium-sized companies can start analyzing massive amounts of data for a few hundred yuan.
In December 2014, Alibaba Cloud helped a game company withstand the largest DDoS attack in the history of the global Internet.
2015
In March 2015, Alibaba Cloud West America Data Center was put into trial operation to provide cloud computing services to users in North America and the world. In January, 12306 deployed the ticket query service on Alibaba Cloud, and 75% of the traffic during the Spring Festival travel peak was diverted.
In May 2015, Dubai's leading company Meraas Holdings Group and Alibaba Cloud cooperated to establish a new technology-based enterprise. In April, Sinopec and Alibaba Cloud launched technical cooperation to upgrade the business service model.
In May 2015, Alibaba Cloud won the bid for the big data cloud project of the “Golden Customs Project Phase II” of the customs.
In June 2015, after one and a half years, Alibaba and Ant Financial completed the "Moon Landing Plan" and migrated all data storage and computing tasks to the Feitian platform.
In July 2015, Alibaba Group strategically increased its capital in Alibaba Cloud by 6 billion. Alibaba Cloud and the Chinese Academy of Sciences set up a laboratory to develop quantum computers
In September 2015, the East China Data Center was opened, using urban landscape water cooling
In October 2015, Alibaba Cloud won the 2015 World Telecom Excellent Enterprise Award based on "real technical capabilities and social influence" as the judging criteria, becoming the only Chinese company to win the award.
In October 2015, in the Sort Benchmark 2015 sorting competition, Feitian completed the sorting of 100TB data in 377 seconds, breaking four world records.
In November 2015, Alibaba Cloud supported a transaction volume of 91.2 billion yuan during Double 11, with a peak value of 140,000 transactions per second.
2016
In January 2016, Alibaba Cloud released the one-stop big data platform "Data Plus", opening up Alibaba's ten-year big data processing capabilities, and debuting 20 products in the first batch.
In April 2016, Alibaba Cloud Artificial Intelligence ET successfully predicted the champion of "I Am a Singer" based on neural network, social computing, emotional perception and other principles.
In April 2016, Alibaba Cloud released Apsara Stack to support enterprise customers to deploy the Feitian operating system in their data centers.
In April 2016, SK Group, South Korea's third-largest multinational company, and Alibaba Cloud collaborated to expand the Korean cloud computing market.
In May 2016, Alibaba Group and Japan's SoftBank Corporation announced their cooperation to jointly expand the Japanese cloud computing market.
In August 2016, Alibaba Cloud's brand image was upgraded and a new dynamic logo was launched.
In October 2016, Hangzhou teamed up with Alibaba Cloud to release the city brain, artificial intelligence ET to help govern traffic.
In October 2016, Alibaba Cloud cooperated with the National Astronomical Observatory to jointly carry out astrophysics research.
In November 2016, Feitian was selected as one of the 15 most representative scientific and technological innovation achievements of the world Internet in 2016.
In November 2016, Alibaba Cloud Europe, Middle East, Japan, and Australia regions successively opened services to achieve global Internet market coverage.
In November 2016, Alibaba Cloud broke the CloudSort world record and reduced the computing cost of 100TB data sorting to 1/3.
2017
In January 2017, Alibaba became the official partner of the Olympic Games "cloud service" and "e-commerce platform service", providing cloud computing and artificial intelligence technology for the Olympic Games.
On December 20, 2017, Alibaba Cloud officially launched the ET brain that integrates urban management, industrial optimization, auxiliary medical care, environmental governance, aviation dispatch and other global capabilities at the Yunqi Conference and Beijing Summit, and comprehensively deploys industrial AI.
2018
In July 2018, Shandong Zikuang Group and Alibaba Cloud Computing Company signed an agreement to jointly promote the new and old kinetic energy conversion cooperation project.
On September 22, 2018, at the 2018 Hangzhou Yunqi Conference, Alibaba Cloud announced the establishment of a global delivery center.On November 26, 2018, Alibaba Group announced that Alibaba Cloud would upgrade Alibaba Cloud Intelligence and strengthen the investment and construction of technology and intelligent Internet.
2019
On June 18, 2019, Alibaba DingTalk entered the Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Business Group. DingTalk CEO Chen Hang reported to Zhang Jianfeng, CTO of Alibaba Group and President of Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Business Group.
On September 26, 2019, at the Yunqi Conference, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Vice President and Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Computing Platform Division General Manager Jia Yangqing announced that Alibaba Cloud and Facebook have reached a cooperation. Facebook's open source deep learning framework PyTorch will be stationed on the Alibaba Cloud machine learning platform.
On October 11, 2019, Alibaba Cloud confirmed that it intends to wholly acquire Changting Technology. After the acquisition, the Changting Technology brand and team will remain independent.
On October 25, 2019, IDC announced the ranking of China's financial cloud market: Alibaba Cloud ranked first.
On October 31, 2019, Alibaba Cloud plans to wholly acquire Beijing Jiuzhou Yunteng Technology Co., Ltd.
On December 3, 2019, Alibaba Cloud and Tridium announced that they had reached a cooperation, and the Niagara 4 architecture was connected to the AIoT platform of Alibaba Cloud.
On December 3, 2019, Alibaba Cloud's digital government market share ranked first, an increase of 102.57% year-on-year.
2020
On March 19, 2020, Alibaba Cloud announced that during the epidemic period, the new crown pneumonia AI diagnosis technology will be freely available to hospitals around the world, and a CT diagnosis of a suspected case can be completed in 20 seconds. The accuracy rate is over 96%, which can greatly help overseas areas with severe epidemics. Save medical resources.
April 3, 2020 report: In the image recognition (Image Classification on ImageNet) list, Alibaba Cloud took the first place in four items: training time, training cost, reasoning delay, and reasoning cost, breaking the company's maintenance for more than a year. Record.
On April 13, 2020, Alibaba Cloud helped Shanghai build a new economic benchmark city.
On April 17, 2020, the integration of Alibaba Cloud IoT and Tmall Elf resources started the "Elf Partner Program"
On July 31, 2020, Alibaba Cloud announced the official completion of three super data centers located in Nantong, Hangzhou, and Ulan Chabu. They will be opened one after another. More than one million servers will be added, radiating Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, and Guangdong. The three major economic zones of Hong Kong and Macau. In the future, Alibaba Cloud will build more than 10 super data centers across the country to support the development of new infrastructure.
On the evening of September 27, 2020, Alibaba announced a new round of adjustments, mainly involving Dingding Business Unit. It will work with the Alibaba Cloud Cloud Video Team, Alibaba Cloud Teambition Team, Enterprise Intelligence Division Yi team, government-enterprise cloud division, digital government middle-stage division, and Wuxing Technology to form a new Dingding division.
2. Alibaba Cloud technical architecture
Seeing this technical architecture, does it feel very complicated, but it is also perfect, which can provide enterprises with efficient and convenient servicesAs a user, it’s like just ordering food, and the process and the final service are all done by Alibaba Cloud
Now let’s get a general understanding, and then do further in-depth study later.
Here you can see that it is ACID+S. It should be noted that the S (security) is listed separately. Considering its security, it is important to ensure the security of the customer’s data, which cannot be leaked or lost. !
Note: The above solutions are for specific industriesBecause you may have a doubt: the services provided by Alibaba Cloud are quite good, but it may not be particularly suitable for my industry, although it can be used.
Just like in some industries, safety is the first priority (safety>performance), and some industries require performance in the first place.
So here is a solution for a specific industry . If you use public cloud services that are not very compatible with your company’s technical characteristics or technology specificity, you might as well choose this method
For example, the financial industry pays more attention to safety and reliability, while online education focuses on stability, etc.
3. Geography and Availability Zone
note! After the resource is successfully created, the region cannot be changedThe geographical name is related to geography
Different regions are isolated, and resources cannot be shared at all, but it is more troublesome. We will learn more about this later.
For example, the resources you create in Beijing use the servers in Beijing, which is a physical limitation
Geography is a relatively large concept, closely related to physical locationAvailability zone is a concept within a region, there will be multiple availability zones in the same region
Just like you have built several computer rooms in Beijing, which are connected to each other by a private network, and the transmission efficiency is very fast, and you built another computer room in Shanghai, which is connected to the public network across regions, which is relatively more costly and has transmission efficiency. Slower
Different availability zones are actually equivalent to a different data center, which also has a complete set of hardware and software systems
In the same region, multiple availability zones are interconnected by internal networks.
Different regions are interconnected by public networks, and the speed is not as fast as private networks.
If the server is in your company's local area, you can visit it quickly, but your target group is also very important!Cost: The same resource is two prices at home and abroad
Again: After the resource is successfully created, you cannot change the region, you must carefully consider when making this choice
3. Cloud practice
1. Hangzhou City Brain
On October 13, 2016, at the Hangzhou Yunqi Conference, the Hangzhou Municipal Government and Alibaba Cloud announced a "crazy" plan: to install an artificial intelligence hub-Hangzhou City for this city with a history of more than 2,200 years Data brain.
The core of the city brain uses Alibaba Cloud ET artificial intelligence technology, which can perform global real-time analysis of the entire city, automatically allocate public resources, and correct bugs in the city's operation. It will eventually evolve into a super artificial intelligence that can govern the city.
In September 2016, the urban brain traffic module was put into use at Shixin Road, Xiaoshan District. Preliminary test data shows that through intelligent adjustment of traffic lights, road vehicle traffic speed has increased by 3% to 5% on average, and 11% increase in some road sections, which really started the exploration of improving traffic with large-scale data.
2.12306 website
Alibaba Cloud confirmed on January 16, 2014 that it did provide technical assistance to the 12306 train ticket website, and was responsible for undertaking 75% of the remaining ticket query traffic of the 12306 website.
Public data shows that the highest peak of the 2015 Spring Festival train ticket sales is on December 19, 2014. 12306 website visits (PV value) reached a record-breaking 29.7 billion times, with an average of more than 300,000 PV per second. A total of 9.564 million train tickets were sold on the same day, of which 5.639 million were sold on the Internet, accounting for 59%, all of which set a new record during the Spring Festival.
The peak traffic of the 12306 Spring Festival is dozens of times higher than usual. If traditional IT solutions are used, for the annual Spring Festival transport, a large number of hardware devices need to be purchased according to the peak traffic, and then these devices will be idle, causing a huge waste of resources.
In addition, if the peak traffic during the Spring Festival transport exceeds expectations, the website will be paralyzed, because large-scale server procurement, shelves, deployment and debugging will take at least one or two months, and there will be no time to temporarily add servers. The use of elastically scalable cloud computing can solve this problem.
The cost of using cloud computing itself is lower than buying hardware by yourself. In addition, all resources are billed according to the amount. From the Golden Week to the Spring Festival, 12306 has made two large-scale expansions on the cloud, each expansion The delivery of resources is completed in minutes. After the business peak is over, unnecessary resources can be released and costs can be recovered.
3. Tianhong Fund and Yu'ebao
Tianhong Fund and Alipay jointly launched the "Yuebao" wealth management payment product in June 2013. After the launch of "Yuebao", in just a few months, the fund scale of Yu'ebao exceeded 100 billion and the number of users exceeded 30 million. It became the first fund in the history of Chinese funds to exceed 100 billion in scale.
The first phase of Yu'ebao is a new direct selling system developed by Tianhong Fund and Jinzheng. It relies on the traditional IOE architecture (IBM minicomputers, EMC storage devices, Oracle database). After the first phase of the system went online, the business volume and the number of users increased sharply According to the increasing rate of business volume, the system will encounter bottlenecks in the first phase of October. After two months of project migration, Tianhong Fund successfully went to the cloud on September 26 and became China's first fund company with a core system on the cloud.
After the system was on the cloud, the performance exceeded expectations. Real-time request processing can reach 11,000 transactions per second, and the settlement of 300 million transactions can be completed within 140 minutes. It only takes 30 minutes to complete the previous 8 hours of liquidation work.
On November 11, 2013, Yu’ebao paid a total of 16.79 million transactions, worth 6.125 billion yuan, and 5.56 million users from 31 provinces and more than 2,000 cities and counties across the country used Yu’ebao to pay on "Double Eleven"; Among the various payment methods of "Double Eleven", the payment speed is the fastest and the payment success rate is the highest, as high as 99.9%.
The innovation of "Yuebao" in business model and technical architecture has had a huge impact on the financial industry and has become a benchmark case of Internet finance.