Ali cloud server (Elastic Compute Service, referred to as ECS) is Ali cloud provides excellent performance, reliable, flexible scalable IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) level cloud computing services. ECS cloud server eliminates the preparation of your purchase IT hardware, allowing you to use like water, electricity, gas and other public resources as easy, efficient use of server, realize that the use scalable and elastic computing resources. Ali cloud ECS server continues to provide innovative, solve a variety of business needs, help your business.
Why cloud server ECS
1. Select the cloud server ECS, you can easily build computational resource has the following advantages:
2. No self-built room, without having to purchase and configure hardware.
3. minute class delivery, rapid deployment, shortening the on-line application cycle.
4. Quick access deployments worldwide data center and BGP room.
5. Cost transparent, on-demand, at any time to support the expansion and release of resources based on business fluctuations.
6. Provide GPU and FPGA heterogeneous computing server, a server and a universal elastic bare metal x86 architecture servers.
7. Support to access other services via the network cloud Ali, form a rich industry solutions, reducing public network traffic costs.
8. Provide a virtual firewall, role access control, network isolation, anti-virus attacks such as multiple security and traffic monitoring program.
9. The framework provides performance monitoring and active operation and maintenance system.
10. To provide common industry standard API, improve ease of use and applicability.
Product proprietary network architecture VPC : logically complete isolation of the cloud on a private network. You can assign itself a private IP address range, configure the routing table and gateways.
Classic Network : all the classic examples of network types are built on the basis of a common network. Ali cloud is configured by the unified planning and management network.
Example : equivalent to a virtual server, containing CPU, memory, operating systems, network configuration, and other disk-based computing component. Examples of computing performance, memory performance and application instance is determined by standard business scenarios, and specific examples include vCPU performance audit, memory size, network performance.
Mirror : provides examples of operating systems, application initialization data and pre-installed software. Operating system supports a variety of Linux distributions and many versions of Windows Server.
Memory block : block device type of product, high performance and low latency characteristics. Cloud-based disk storage architecture of distributed shared memory block (beta) is based on a local disk physical machine stored locally.
Snapshot : a cloud point in time a disk or shared block status of stored data files. Commonly used in data backup, data recovery, and the like making custom images.
Security Group : Demand instances with the same protection from the same geographical area and the composition of mutual trust, is a virtual firewall, network access control settings for instance.
Network :
1. the VPC private network: logically complete isolation of the private network cloud. You can assign itself a private IP address range, configure the routing table and gateways.
2. Classic Network: all the classic examples of network types are built on the basis of a common network. Ali cloud is configured by the unified planning and management network.
Pricing
cloud server ECS supports prepaid, pay by volume, Reserved Instances ticket (invited measured in), and other examples of preemptive bill computing model. For more information, see product pricing and cloud billing overview page.
Management Tools
By registering Ali cloud account, you can, in any area, Ali goes through the following means provided to create, use or release a cloud server ECS:
ECS Management Console: Web pages with interactive services operations.
ECS API: support RPC style API GET and POST requests.
1. command-line tool CLI: flexible and extensible management tools based on cloud API Ali established. You can package the native API Ali cloud-based command-line tool, expand the functionality you need.
2.OpenAPI Explorer: provides fast search interface, API calls and dynamically generated SDK sample code and other services online.
3. Ali Cloud SDK: providing SDK Java, Python, PHP and other programming languages.
Resource organization (Resource Orchestration Service): By creating a template describing all Ali cloud resources you need, then the resources will be based on the template layout, automatic creation and allocation of resources.
Terraform: the configuration file can be invoked by Ali cloud and other support Terraform cloud computing business platform resources, and its open-source version control tool.
Ali Cloud App: mobile terminal type management tool. Ali cloud on how to use App, see App User Guide.
Alibaba Cloud Toolkit: Ali goes for a plug-in IDE platform for developers to offer to help you efficiently develop and deploy applications in the cloud for running.
Deployment recommendations
you can consider how to start and use the cloud server ECS from the following dimensions:
the geographical area and the available
area refers to Ali cloud data centers, regional and district determines the physical location of the available ECS instance is located. Upon successful instance is created, its metadata (ECS only proprietary network type VPC instances Support for metadata), will be finalized and can not be replaced regions. You can from the user location, Ali cloud product launches, the application availability, and the need for network communication within the geographical and other factors to select the available area. For example, if you also need to use the RDS by Ali cloud cloud database within the network, RDS instances and ECS instance must be in the same region in.
High availability
In order to ensure the correctness of business processes and uninterrupted service, we recommend that you implement data backup snapshots, available across the region through the deployment set, load balancing, etc. SLB implement disaster recovery applications.
Network Planning
Ali cloud is recommended that you use a proprietary network VPC, can plan their own private IP, fully support the new features and the new instance specification. In addition, a proprietary network VPC system supports the use of multi-service scenarios isolation and multi-regional deployment of the system.
Security program
that you can use cloud server security group ECS, ECS example of a control network access policies, and port listening. For applications deployed on the cloud server ECS, Ali cloud provides you with a free basic DDoS protection, in addition you can also use the shield of Ali and so on, for example:
by stable high anti-DDoS protection IP reliable source station.
ECS protect the safety of the cloud server by Ann Knight.
Learning Path
You can cloud server ECS learning paths quickly understand the products, progressive approach to learning the operation and maintenance of cloud server ECS.
Related services
using cloud servers ECS at the same time, you can also select the following Ali cloud services:
1. According to changing business needs and strategies, the use of elastically stretchable (Auto Scaling) automatically adjusts the amount of ECS cloud server.
2. Use a container service (Container Service) on a set of cloud servers through ECS Docker container application lifecycle management.
3. To achieve the purpose of load balancing to distribute traffic to multiple cloud servers ECS through load balancing (Server Load Balancer).
4. The formulation of example, the system disk and the public network bandwidth monitoring program to monitor cloud (CloudMonitor).
5. In the same region, Ali cloud, cloud using relational databases (Relational Database Service) server as the database application cloud ECS is a typical service access infrastructure, can greatly reduce network latency and public network access costs, and achieve cloud database the best performance of RDS. RDS cloud database engine supports multiple databases, including MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, PPAS and MariaDB.
6. Obtain basic software provided by a third-party service providers in the cloud market, business software, website construction, transportation and maintenance, cloud security, data and API, solutions related to various types of software and services. You can also become a cloud service provider market, providing software applications and services.