On April 11, at the 2023 Alibaba Cloud Summit, Zhang Yong, chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group and CEO of Alibaba Cloud Intelligent Group, said that making computing a public service is the constant pursuit of Alibaba Cloud . In the future, the core must do two things well Things: First, make computing power more inclusive, promote the positive cycle of self-developed technology and large-scale operations, and continue to release technological dividends; second, make AI more popular, so that every company's products can be connected to large-scale model upgrades Transformation, with the ability to create your very own megamodel.
Zhang Yong believes that in the past ten years, Alibaba Cloud has self-developed core technologies to fully serve the digitalization process. The era of intelligence has brought about an explosion of computing power, but also put forward higher requirements. Zhang Yong said that he appeared as a cloud customer in the earliest days. When he was the first to do double eleven in 2009~2010, his most simple idea was whether the technical system could support huge and real-time transactions and withstand the double eleven. flood peak while keeping cost input sustainable. "After 14 years, we no longer have to worry about the flood peak system. Real-time transactions, high concurrency, and high peak value are the basic bottom line that cloud computing can overcome, ensuring smooth and smooth services, and many visions of the future have become reality. "Zhang Yong said.
Facing the future, Alibaba Cloud is also continuing to deploy and promote the continuous innovation of underlying technologies.
Full-stack cloud products are serverless, lowering the threshold for using the cloud
In the past period of time, business development on the cloud has developed by leaps and bounds. More and more developers have shifted from offline development to cloud development, and then to cloud-native development, so that all development links are on the cloud. It can be said that the development paradigm on the cloud has become the mainstream and its development is accelerating.
From IaaS, PaaS, and MaaS, Alibaba Cloud has a complete product system. Especially in the PaaS layer, Alibaba Cloud has implemented a variety of product upgrades to Serverless, and successively launched Serverless services in functional computing, containers, databases, big data, machine learning, etc., lowering the threshold for using the cloud and allowing developers to use it like electricity. Cloud platform to solve practical problems.
Alibaba Cloud has been in the serverless field for many years, and it is also the first cloud vendor in China to provide serverless computing services. Function Compute FC, launched in 2017, is a FaaS product. It is an event-driven fully managed computing service. Users only need to write code and upload it, and Function Compute will automatically prepare computing resources to run in an elastic and reliable manner. Code, and provide complete observability, greatly simplifying the development and operation process. Since its release, Function Compute FC has helped tens of thousands of domestic and foreign companies implement modern applications in a wide range of scenarios such as Web, mobile backend, audio and video, AI reasoning, and batch task processing.
Currently, Alibaba Cloud has more than 20 serverless products, including Function Compute FC, Serverless Application Engine SAE, and Serverless Container Service ASK.
In addition to changes in product form, Serverless has also brought about changes in software development paradigms. As Alibaba Cloud provides more and more comprehensive serverless products, many cloud products have become modular, API-based, and service-oriented, and can be assembled. Enterprises can flexibly respond to business challenges.
At the same time, this summit announced that Alibaba Cloud has fully opened free trials of cloud products, and launched the "Feitian Free Trial Plan" , which will fully open services including ECS, Function Compute FC, container mirroring service ACR, database PolarDB, machine learning PAI, etc. The free trial of 50 cloud products, including up to 3 months, can support developers to build different types of applications including online, big data, AI, etc., and supports the serverless development model.
Substantial price cuts and free trials of core products will drive the industry to further shift from traditional IT to cloud computing. For developers, Alibaba Cloud hopes to provide a wealth of technical products, lower the threshold for technology use through technological innovation, continuously reduce the cost of using the cloud, and let developers become the main body of innovation.
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