EMQX Cloud is committed to providing reliable and efficient fully managed MQTT message cloud services for customers of different scales in thousands of industries. It is hoped that through easy-to-use and standardized SaaS products, users can freely build IoT applications like "Lego".
Facing the different personalized needs of customers, the EMQX Cloud team decided to set up a new value-added function section based on the original product form to provide users with more high-value functions. In the future, users will be able to choose to open value-added services according to their actual needs, saving unnecessary costs and expenses, and at the same time meeting customized needs.
Trial address: fully managed IoT MQTT cloud platform
Two value-added functions are newly opened
This update opens the two value-added functions of intranet load balancing and NAT gateway, and provides a 14-day free trial.
Intranet load balancing
Intranet load balancing is a service that distributes traffic on-demand in the intranet. By distributing traffic to different back-end servers, the throughput of the application system can be expanded, and the single point of failure in the system can be eliminated and the application can be improved. system availability.
NAT gateway
NAT gateways can provide network address translation services and provide access to public network resources for Professional Edition deployments without the need for a VPC peering connection.
Note: The above functions are required to be used in the professional version
Opening process
Log in to the EMQX Cloud console, go through the top menu bar -> Value-added services
or Activate designated value-added services at the bottom of the deployment overview
Click Activate Service , drop down to select the deployment to be bound to the value-added service, and click Next
Confirm the service information and click to confirm purchase
Click Go to Services to start configuring the use of value-added services.
Note: The deployment of different versions only displays the value-added services that can be used and activated in the deployment of this version.
Billing method
After the NAT gateway and intranet load balancing are activated, you will automatically get a 14-day free trial . After the first trial instance ends or is deleted, the next instance created will be charged.
After the trial ends, the NAT gateway and intranet load balancing function will be billed at 0.6 yuan/hour and 0.1 yuan/hour respectively , and will be billed hourly from the account balance under your EMQX Cloud main account. If the account balance is insufficient, the value-added service will be automatically deleted.
The details of expenses can be viewed in Financial Management -> Overview -> Hourly Bills and Historical Bills to view the deduction details.
Note: When the deployment of the value-added service is stopped, the non-trial value-added service will be billed normally. To avoid additional charges, please delete the value-added services under this deployment.
Configuration instructions
Intranet load balancing configuration
After completing the purchase of the intranet load balancing value-added service, you can view the creation status of the intranet load balancing in the corresponding deployment overview, and wait for the creation to complete.
When the status of the intranet load balancing is running, you can connect the terminal under the VPC that has completed the peering connection to the deployment through the intranet IP of the intranet address. The connection port is the same as the public network connection port: mqtt port is 1883, websocket The port is 8083.
NAT gateway configuration
After completing the purchase of the NAT gateway value-added service, you can see the NAT gateway creation status in the corresponding deployment overview and wait for the creation to complete.
When the status of the NAT gateway is running, the deployment can access public network resources.
The NAT gateway is not enabled to access public network resources:
To access public network resources after enabling the NAT gateway:
The EMQX Cloud production and research team will continue to collect user needs and launch more value-added services to meet the individual needs of different types of users. If you have any needs that you want to implement in EMQ X Cloud, please click https://jinshuju.net/f/JRJkK5 to participate in the value-added service function trial feedback activity, we will draw lucky users to send out EMQ surprise peripheral gift packs!
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