Challenges
Workloads on backend servers are heavy during peak hours in the audio, video, and game industries:
• A large amount of network traffic is forwarded between clients and backend servers in scenarios, such as short videos, long videos, livestreaming, online education, and online games.
• Large traffic fluctuations occur in audio and video scenarios. This affects the performance, elasticity, stability, and availability of systems.
Benefits
- High Performance
Supports Cloud Network Management 2.0. A single SLB instance supports 1,000,000 QPS.
- High Elasticity
SLB automatically adjusts its processing capabilities based on the inbound traffic. You do not need to configure the service manually.
- Advanced Protocol
Supports QUIC to facilitate transmission for videos and reduce First Contentful Paint [FCP] time.
Alibaba Cloud CDN
A highly scalable and cost-effective service to accelerate content delivery.
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Anti-DDoS
Automatically protects your service from DDoS attacks.
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ApsaraDB for Redis
A fully-managed cloud database service that supports Redis.
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Requirements
Frequent business adjustment occurs in scenarios, such as new retail, new finance, product releases, and large-scale promotions.
Services must be secure, reliable, elastic, and ready to use after they are activated.
You must provide flexible billing to reduce costs.
Benefits
- Ready-to-use
You do not need to purchase or deploy any hardware. The SLB service is ready to use after it is activated. You can specify billing methods based on your business requirements. This allows you to manage your business flexibly and efficiently.
- Scalability
SLB automatically adjusts its processing capabilities based on inbound traffic. You do not need to configure the service manually in large-scale promotion scenarios.
- High Security and Reliability
Provides disaster recovery at four levels. SLB supports integration with Anti-DDoS and Cloud Firewall to secure your business.
Elastic Compute Service [ECS]
Provides elastic and secure servers to host your services on the cloud.
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Web Application Firewall [WAF]
Defends websites from common attacks at the application layer to ensure security and availability.
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Cloud Enterprise Network [CEN]
A global network that consists of interconnected hybrid clouds and distributed systems.
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Requirements
Enterprises from the Internet, finance, and enterprise sectors want to use advanced cloud-native technologies to deploy their new businesses on the cloud or adjust their current businesses.
You must use the cloud-native SLB service to use ACK, SAE, or Kubernetes.
Benefits
- Cloud-Native
Integrated with ACK, SAE, and Kubernetes. SLB functions as a cloud-native gateway on Alibaba Cloud to distribute inbound network traffic.
- Fully Developed APIs
SLB supports gRPC and provides fully-developed APIs that you can call to manage the connections to a large number of microservices.
Container Service for Kubernetes [ACK]
Provides secure and highly-available container services and supports stable upgrades.
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Elastic IP Address [EIP]
An independent public IP resource that allows flexible management.
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NAT Gateway
Functions as an Internet gateway for a VPC.
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Requirements
Multinational enterprises want to distribute network traffic from different regions across applications and connect their data centers to Alibaba Cloud in a cost-effective way.
They want to build a hybrid cloud or a cross-region network that provides multi-level disaster recovery.
Benefits
- Support for All Regions
Supports intelligent DNS resolution. Client traffic is directed to the best available IP addresses to accelerate transmission and improve the user experience.
- Multi-Level Disaster Recovery
SLB provides high availability across regions and zones.
- Ease of Use
You can use SLB and CEN to build a global network that connects data centers in different regions to Alibaba Cloud in a fast and simplified way.
Global Accelerator [GA]
Provides network acceleration services for your Internet-facing application globally.
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Cloud Enterprise Network [CEN]
Allows you to build a global network that consists of interconnected hybrid clouds and distributed systems with scalability and communication capabilities at the enterprise level.
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Object Storage Service [OSS]
Provides encrypted and secure storage services on the cloud.
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