Get to know Alibaba cloud (Cloud Computing) - development history, technical architecture, region and availability zone!

One 、 Get to know alicloud for the first time

1. summary

• Alibaba cloud , Alibaba Group's cloud computing brand , The world's leading provider of cloud computing technology and services （ Cloud computing and artificial intelligence technology companies ）.
• Founded in 2009 year , At Hangzhou 、 Beijing 、 Silicon Valley and other places have R & D centers and operating institutions .
• 80% Above engaged in technical work , More than 100 technical patents have been applied for in China .
• Committed to building public 、 An open data centric cloud computing service platform , With the help of technological innovation , Continuously improve computing power and scale efficiency , Turn cloud computing into a real public service , Build a new infrastructure for the next generation of information economy .
• In the form of online public service , Provide security 、 Reliable computing and data processing capabilities , Let computing and artificial intelligence become inclusive technology .
• Alicloud services manufacturing 、 Finance 、 government affairs 、 traffic 、 Medical care 、 telecom 、 Leading enterprises in many fields such as energy , Including China Unicom 、12306、 sinopec 、 petrochina 、 philips 、 BGI and other large enterprise customers , And Weibo 、 You know 、 Hammer technology and other star internet companies .
• In Tmall double 11 Global Carnival 、12306 In challenging application scenarios such as buying tickets for Spring Festival Transportation , Alibaba cloud maintains a good operating record .

2. Alibaba cloud log

Alibaba cloud's new LOGO Starting from the calculation ：“[-]” From common symbols in code , Represents the middle of the calculation “-” Represents the flowing data , As the infrastructure of modern society, computing and data , It is running anytime, anywhere .

3. Brand slogan

For incalculable value

stay 2015 At the Yunqi Conference , Alibaba cloud has released new brand slogans and brand advertisements ——“ For incalculable value ”

（Creating value beyond computing. ）, Deeply explain Alibaba cloud's brand positioning and brand value .

In traditional cognition ,“ Calculation ” The word is too distant and cold for most people , That is the world of code that must be cracked , The intersection with daily life seems so tiny .

Alibaba cloud believes that , The ultimate meaning of computing is to exert the power of numbers , To solve the problem 、 Create value , Make numbers more than numbers , Give the numbers the joys and sorrows of people .

Every time you post a photo on a social networking site ;

Every time your mobile phone wallet has a surplus of one yuan ;

Every time when you and your friends watch the game in front of the computer, they give a cheer ;

Every time the world welcomes a healthy baby ;

Every time when the wind 、 Sunlight once brought the cleanest energy ……

These are incalculable values .

4. Cloud computing value

Zeng Ming, Chief Strategic Officer of Alibaba group , Has systematically summarized the value of cloud computing for enterprises .

1. Move + Cloud computing = Realized IT Service “ Online “, Let the threshold of technology be greatly reduced .
2. Cloud computing is a public service , It's a variable cost , Available on demand , It is no longer a fixed asset investment , The cost pressure of start-ups has been greatly reduced .
3. Cloud computing turns data into means of production and enterprise assets .

• Cloud computing , Is to use enough low cost 、 A commercial model to solve the problem of big Computing . Before, people only thought about supercomputers , Its operating costs are high , And the reaction speed is still very slow , When these big Internet applications really develop , For example, Taobao. , The purchase needs raised by hundreds of millions of businesses , Behind the real-time information matching , It's big data calculation . therefore , Cloud computing is using a distributed approach , A solution for massive data and big computing . If you don't have computing power , We can't talk about the era of big data , Talk about the efficient application of volume data .
• Ma in 2016 Five new ideas were put forward at the yunqi conference in Hangzhou ：“ The new retail , New manufacture , New finance , New technology , New energy ”, Alibaba cloud is becoming this “ Five new ” Economic infrastructure , Its self-developed super large-scale general computing operating system Feitian , It can connect millions of servers all over the world into a supercomputer , Provide computing power for the society in the form of online public services .
• Hu Xiaoming, President of Alibaba cloud, said ： Next 3~5 year , Cloud computing 、 Big data will not only change in the Internet , Will also be manufactured in industry 、 Agricultural operations 、 Urban transportation , And genetics 、 Medical imaging 、 Education, entertainment and other fields produce empowerment .“ Cloud computing 、 Big data will change the basic ecology of all walks of life , Alibaba hopes to export its existing capabilities , Give more innovators 、 Entrepreneurs, government agencies and domestic and foreign partners .

Two 、 Alibaba cloud overall architecture

1. Alibaba cloud's development history

2015 Years ago

2008 year 9 month , Alibaba is sure “ Cloud computing ” and “ big data ” strategic , Decided to independently develop a large-scale distributed computing operating system “ flying ”.

2008 year 10 month , The flying team was formally established .

2009 year 2 month , Flying team wrote the first line of code in Beijing .

2009 year 9 month , Alibaba cloud computing Co., Ltd. was officially established .

2010 year 4 month , Alibaba finance order loan product “ Shepherd Dog ” Take the first step , Successfully launched on Feitian platform .

2010 year 5 month , Alibaba cloud public beta .

2011 year 7 month , Alicloud official website goes online , Start to provide cloud computing services on a large scale .

2012 year 6 month , Alibaba cloud has fully supported CCTV's European Cup 24 Live webcast of the event .

2012 year 11 month , Alibaba cloud is the first to obtain ISO27001 International certification of information security management system .

2013 year 1 month , Alibaba cloud merges services such as the WAN domain name .8 month , Alibaba cloud has become the first in the world to provide 5K Companies with cloud computing capabilities .

2013 year 9 month , All core systems of yu'e Bao are migrated to Alibaba cloud , Tianhong fund has become the largest Monetary Fund in China .11 month , Alibaba cloud launched financial cloud services , Open the Internet Financial shortcut .12 month , Alibaba cloud computing has won the world's first cloud security international certification gold medal （CSA-STAR）.

2014 year 5 month , Alibaba cloud services in Hong Kong , Become the first company in China to provide overseas cloud computing services .

2014 year 8 month , Alibaba cloud releases the cloud cooperation plan , recruit 1 Wanjia cloud service provider , Build a cloud ecosystem .7 month , Alibaba cloud releases the big data computing platform MaxCompute, Small and medium-sized companies can spend hundreds of yuan to start analyzing massive data .

2014 year 12 month , Alibaba cloud helps a game company , It has resisted the largest in the history of the global Internet DDoS The attack of .

2015 year

2015 year 3 month , Alibaba Cloud West America data center is put into trial operation , Provide cloud computing services to users in North America and even around the world .1 month ,12306 Deploy the ticket query service on Alibaba cloud , The Spring Festival rush hour has been diverted 75% Of traffic .

2015 year 5 month , Dubai leader Meraas The holding group cooperates with Alibaba cloud , Set up new technology-based enterprises .4 month , Sinopec and Alibaba cloud carry out technical cooperation , Upgrade the business service model .

2015 year 5 month , Alibaba cloud wins the bid for customs “ Phase II of Jinguan project ” Big data cloud project orders .

2015 year 6 month , After a year and a half , Alibaba and ant Jinfu complete “ Mission to the moon ”, Store all data 、 All computing tasks are migrated to the flying platform .

2015 year 7 month , Alibaba Group's strategic capital increase to Alibaba cloud 60 Billion . Alibaba cloud and the Chinese Academy of Sciences set up a laboratory , Developing quantum computers .

2015 year 9 month , East China data center is enabled , Cooling with urban landscape water .

2015 year 10 month , Alibaba cloud has obtained the “ Real technological capability and social influence ” For the criterion of 2015 Outstanding enterprise award of the world telecommunication exhibition , Become the only award-winning Chinese enterprise .

2015 year 10 month ,Sort Benchmark2015 In the ranking competition of , For flying 377 Seconds to complete 100TB Data sorting of , Break four World Records .

2015 year 11 month , Alibaba cloud supports “ double 11”912 Transaction volume of 100 million yuan , Transactions create a peak of... Per second 14 Ten thousand brush .

2016 year

2016 year 1 month , Alibaba cloud releases a one-stop big data platform “ Number plus ”, Open Alibaba's big data processing capacity for ten years , First appearance 20 Products .

2016 year 4 month , Alibaba cloud artificial intelligence ET Based on Neural Networks 、 Social Computing 、 Principles of emotional perception , Successful prediction 《 I am a singer 》 champion .

2016 year 4 month , Alibaba cloud releases proprietary cloud （Apsara Stack）, Support enterprise customers to deploy Feitian operating system in their own data center .

2016 year 4 month , The third largest multinational enterprise in Korea SK The group cooperates with Alibaba cloud , Join hands to expand the Korean cloud computing market .

2016 year 5 month , Alibaba group and Softbank of Japan announced their cooperation , Join hands to expand the Japanese cloud computing market .

2016 year 8 month , Alibaba cloud brand image upgrade , Enable new dynamics logo.

2016 year 10 month , Hangzhou joins hands with Alibaba cloud to release the city brain , Artificial intelligence ET Help manage traffic .

2016 year 10 month , Alibaba cloud cooperates with the National Astronomical Observatory , Jointly carry out astrophysical research .

2016 year 11 month , Feitian was selected 2016 The world's Internet is the most representative 15 Scientific and technological innovation achievements .

2016 year 11 month , Alibaba cloud Europe 、 In the Middle East 、 Japan and Australia have successively opened services , Achieve global Internet market coverage .

2016 year 11 month , Alibaba cloud breaks CloudSort World Records , take 100TB The computational cost of data sorting is reduced to 1/3.

2017 year

2017 year 1 month , Alibaba becomes the Olympic Games “ The cloud service ” And “ E-commerce platform services ” Our official partner , Provide cloud computing and artificial intelligence technology for the Olympic Games .

2017 year 12 month 20 Japan , Alibaba cloud is at the cloud habitat conference · Integrated urban management was officially launched at the Beijing Summit 、 Industrial optimization 、 complementary medicine 、 Environmental governance 、 Integrated with overall capabilities such as aviation dispatching ET The brain , Overall layout of industries AI.

2018 year

2018 year 7 month , Shandong Zikuang group and Alibaba cloud computing signed an agreement , Jointly promote the new and old kinetic energy conversion cooperation projects .

2018 year 9 month 22 Japan ,2018 Hangzhou · At the Yunqi Conference , Alibaba cloud announced the establishment of a global delivery center .

2018 year 11 month 26 Japan , Alibaba Group announced that Alibaba cloud has upgraded its intelligence , Strengthen technology 、 Investment and construction of intelligent Internet .

2019 year

2019 year 6 month 18 Japan , Alibaba nailnail enters Alibaba cloud intelligent business group , nailing CEO Chen Hangxiang Alibaba Group CTO Zhang Jianfeng, President of Alibaba cloud intelligent business group, reports .

2019 year 9 month 26 Japan , At the cloud habitat Conference , Vice president of alicloud intelligence 、 Jiayangqing, general manager of Alibaba cloud intelligent computing platform business unit, announced , Alibaba cloud and Facebook Achieve cooperation .Facebook Its open source deep learning framework PyTorch Will be stationed in Alibaba cloud machine learning platform .

2019 year 10 month 11 Japan , Alibaba cloud has confirmed its intention to wholly acquire Changting technology , Upon completion of the acquisition , Changting technology brand and team are independent .

2019 year 10 month 25 Japan ,IDC Announce the ranking of China's financial cloud market ： Alibaba cloud first .

2019 year 10 month 31 Japan , Alibaba cloud plans to wholly acquire Beijing Jiuzhou Yunteng Technology Co., Ltd .

2019 year 12 month 3 Japan , Alibaba cloud and Tridium Announce cooperation , Niagara 4 The architecture is connected to Alibaba cloud AIoT platform .

2019 year 12 month 3 Japan , Alibaba cloud ranks first in the market share of digital government , Year-on-year increase 102.57%.

2020 year

2020 year 3 month 19 Japan , Alibaba cloud announces , During the epidemic period, COVID-19 was opened to hospitals all over the world free of charge AI Diagnostic techniques ,20 One suspected case can be completed in seconds CT The diagnosis , Accuracy up to 96% above , It can help overseas areas with severe epidemics to save medical resources greatly .

2020 year 4 month 3 Reported Wednesday ： In image recognition （Image Classification on ImageNet） In the list , Alibaba cloud has covered the training time 、 Training costs 、 There are four items of reasoning delay and reasoning cost , It has broken the record maintained by Google and other enterprises for more than a year .

2020 year 4 month 13 Alibaba cloud helped Shanghai to build a new economic benchmark city .

2020 year 4 month 17 Alibaba cloud IoT Integrate with tmall elf resources Qi “ Spirit Partner Program ”.

2020 year 7 month 31 Japan , Alibaba cloud announced its location in Nantong 、 Three super data centers in Hangzhou and Wulanchabu were officially completed , One after another , More than one million servers will be added , Radiate Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei 、 Changjiang delta 、 The three major economic belts of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao . In the future, Alibaba cloud will also establish 10 A super data center with more than seats , Support the development of new infrastructure .

2020 year 9 month 27 Sunday night , Alibaba announced a new round of adjustment , It mainly involves the nail business department . It will work with Alibaba cloud video team 、 Alibaba cloud Teambition The team 、 The enterprise intelligence business department should set up a team 、 Government Enterprise Cloud business department 、 The middle office of digital government affairs 、 Blackbird technology team , Set up a new nail business department .

2. Alibaba cloud technology architecture

See the technical architecture , Is it very complicated , But it is also perfect , It can provide high efficiency for enterprises 、 Convenient service . As a user , It's like , Just be able to order , The process and final services are completed by Alibaba cloud . Now let's get a general idea of , Further in-depth study will be done later .

You can see here is ACID+S, What we need to pay attention to is , Among them S（ Security ） It is listed separately , Considering its security , The data security of customers must be ensured , Neither divulge nor throw away , Very important ！

notes ： The above solutions are industry-specific .

Because you may have a doubt ： The services provided by Alibaba cloud are all very good , It may not fit my industry very well , Although it can be used .

Like some industries , Security comes first （ Security > performance ）, In some industries, performance is required to come first .

So here are solutions for specific industries , If the use of public cloud services does not fit well with the technical characteristics or technical specificities of your enterprise , Then you can choose this way .

For example, the financial industry pays more attention to safety and reliability , Online education focuses on stability and so on .

3. Area and availability area

Be careful ！ The region cannot be changed after the resource is successfully created .

Geographical names are related to geography .

Different regions are isolated , Nor is it completely impossible to share resources , It's just a hassle , We will learn more about this in the future .

For example, the resources you created in Beijing , The server in Beijing is used , This is a physical limitation .

Region is a big concept , It is closely related to the physical location .

The availability zone belongs to the concept of region , There will be multiple zones in the same region .

Just like you built several computer rooms in Beijing , They are connected to each other through private networks , The transmission efficiency is very fast , And you have built another computer room in Shanghai , Cross region is connected by public network , Relatively speaking, the cost is higher and the transmission efficiency is slower .

Different availability zones are actually equivalent to different data centers , There is also a complete set of hardware and software system .

In the same area , Multiple availability zones are interconnected through the intranet .

Different regions are interconnected by public networks , The speed is not as fast as the private network .

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If the server is local to your company , Your own visit is very fast , But your target group is also important ！

cost ： The same resources , There are two prices at home and abroad .

Again ： The region cannot be changed after the resource is created successfully , Be careful when making this choice .

3、 ... and 、 Cloud practice

1. Hangzhou City brain

2016 year 10 month 13 Japan , At Hangzhou · At the Yunqi Conference , The Hangzhou municipal government and Alibaba cloud announced a “ insane ” The plan for ： For this city 2200 A city with many years of history , Install an artificial intelligence hub —— Hangzhou City data brain .

The core of the urban brain adopts Alibaba cloud ET Artificial intelligence technology , It can analyze the whole city in real time , Automatically provision public resources , Correct the problem of Bug, Eventually, it will evolve into a super artificial intelligence that can govern cities .

2016 year 9 month , The urban brain traffic module has been put into use in Shixin Road, Xiaoshan District . Preliminary test data show that ： Through intelligent adjustment of traffic lights , The average speed of road vehicles has increased 3% to 5%, There are... In some sections 11% The promotion of , It has really started the exploration of improving traffic with large-scale data .

2.12306 Website

Alibaba cloud 2014 year 1 month 16 Daily confirmation , It is true that 12306 The train ticket website provides technical assistance , Be responsible for undertaking 12306 Website 75% Remaining ticket query traffic .

Public data display ：2015 The peak day of Spring Festival train ticket sales in 2014 year 12 month 19 Japan .12306 Website visits (PV value ) Record breaking 297 100 million times , Average per second PV exceed 30 Ten thousand times . Train tickets sold on the same day 956.4 Thousands of copies , Including Internet sales 563.9 Thousands of copies , Proportion 59%, Both reached new highs in the Spring Festival transportation over the years .

12306 The traffic volume at the peak of the Spring Festival is dozens of times that at ordinary times . If we use tradition IT programme , For the annual Spring Festival transportation , A large number of hardware equipment need to be purchased according to the traffic peak , These devices will then be idle , Cause huge waste of resources .

Besides , If the peak flow of Spring Festival transportation exceeds the expectation , The website will be paralyzed , Because of the purchase of large-scale servers 、 shelves 、 Deployment debugging , It will take at least oneortwo months , There is no time to temporarily add servers . Cloud computing with elastic expansion , This problem can be solved .

Using cloud computing itself is cheaper than buying your own hardware , In addition, all resources are “ Pay by volume ”, From the golden days to the Spring Festival transportation ,12306 Two large-scale capacity expansions have been made on the cloud , The resource delivery of each capacity expansion is completed at the minute level . After the business peak , It can free up unnecessary resources , Cost recovery .

3. Tianhong fund and yu'e Bao

Tianhong fund and Alipay are in 2013 year 6 In June, we launched “ Yu Bao ” Financial payment products .“ Yu Bao ” After going online , In a few months , The scale of yu'e Bao's capital exceeded 100 billion yuan , Breakthrough in number of users 3000 ten thousand . It has become the first fund with a scale exceeding 100 billion yuan in the history of Chinese funds .

Yu'e Bao phase I is a new direct selling system jointly developed by Tianhong fund and Jinzheng , Rely on traditional IOE framework （IBM minicomputer 、EMC The storage device 、Oracle database ）, After the first phase system goes online , The business volume and the number of users have exploded , According to the increasing speed of business volume , To 10 In January, the system will encounter a bottleneck . after 2 Months of project migration , Tianhong fund is 9 month 26 Success on the day cloud , It has become China's first fund company with its core system in the cloud .

After the system goes to the cloud , Performance exceeds expectations , Real time request processing can achieve 11000 Pen per second , complete 3 The clearing of billion transactions can be done in 140 Done in minutes . just 30 It's done in minutes. Before that 8 Hours of liquidation .

2013 year 11 month 11 Japan , Yu'e Bao paid a total of 1679 Ten thousand brush ,61.25 One hundred million yuan , From all over the country 31 A province 、2000 From multiple cities and counties 556 Million users are “ A double tenth ” Use yu'e Bao to pay ; Yu'ebao “ A double tenth ” Of the various payment methods , The fastest payment , The payment success rate is the highest , the height is 99.9% above .“ Yu Bao ” Innovation in business model and technical architecture , It has had a huge response to the financial industry , Become a benchmark case of Internet finance .

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