[Summary] Overview and features of Alibaba Cloud [Points]

This is Ohara from the technical sales department.

This is a summary article of the overview, features, and points of
"Alibaba Cloud" (Information as of May 2018)

Overview of Alibaba Cloud

In China, the service name is generally "Aliyun", and in the international version, the service name is "Alibaba Cloud".

■ China's largest public cloud service. (No. 1 share in China)

■ The largest sales day in the Chinese e-commerce site market It is used in the infrastructure of November 11th, ``Singles Day'' (also known as Double Eleven, W11, Double 11). 1 billion yen), and daily sales: 2.8 trillion yen.
*This 2.8 trillion yen is close to Rakuten's annual sales.

■ It is also used in the infrastructure of Alipay, a smartphone payment service operated by Alibaba. (nearly 60% share in smartphone payment services in China)

■ Official Olympic cloud service. (Long-term contract until 2028)

■ Data centers in 18 regions around the world.

■ Japanese language support/Japanese yen billing. Payment by invoice is also possible. (Overseas region environments can also be purchased in Japanese yen)

■ The control panel can be translated into Japanese, Chinese (simplified characters), and English.

■ Services in each region including China can be used with one account.

■ All you need is one account (one contract) on Alibaba Cloud to register for ICP and obtain an ICP license, which are necessary when developing a website in China, and Alibaba Cloud will handle the ICP application for you. (When opening a website in China, a "pre-application procedure (ICP registration)" is required.)
*For articles regarding ICP licenses, click here.

■ With the package menu, you can use instance (Out) data transfer charges at a fixed rate. (However, in this case, there is an upper limit for the amount of data transferred)

■ "Cybersecurity insurance" is included free of charge in the package menu, with liability coverage of up to 5 million yen and expense coverage of up to 200,000 yen. (Lawyer's fees, apology advertisement costs, personnel costs related to recovery, cause investigation costs, etc.)

Functional features of Alibaba Cloud

■ DDoS attack prevention function "Anti-DDoS" is implemented as standard. (Automatically cleans and discards abnormal traffic)

■ Server monitoring is implemented as a standard feature. (ECS for VM instances only)

■ It is possible to use only CDN services. (Covering all areas is possible with a total of 1,000 or more nodes)

Opening an Alibaba Cloud account

Public clouds such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud require you to register a credit card when opening an account or using services, but with Alibaba Cloud, you are also required to submit information that can prove your identity.

First, you will need to register your credit card information, and then apply to the support center to have your credit card activated. (This is what is different from other companies' public clouds)

 

If you submit "information that can prove your identity" to the support center as shown below, account opening and registration will be completed. (I feel like uploading your driver's license is the quickest way.) After applying for an account, it takes about 10 minutes to complete the application.

summary

In my opinion, among the many public cloud services available, if you have the following requirements/uses, it may be effective to introduce "Alibaba Cloud". There's also a 30,000 yen free coupon, so if you're interested, why not give it a try?

● I want to centralize ICP registration and application.
*In the case of AWS, when launching a server in China, you need to register as a Chinese corporation and open a separate AWS account for China.
● I want to open a region for Chinese users.
● Company payments can only be made in Japanese yen.
● We would like to stabilize charges for data transfer amount to some extent. ...etc.

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