Overview
Alibaba Cloud Apsara Stack is an open, unified, and trusted full-stack cloud solution designed for enterprise-level customers that require a highly capable and flexible hybrid cloud solution.
Apsara Stack uses the proprietary Apsara Distributed Operating System developed in house at Alibaba Cloud, which offers a highly reliable cloud environment to ensure your business continuity.
Benefits
Apsara Stack supports hyper-scale clusters that have more than 10,000 servers in each region, meeting the requirement of operating large business systems and applications to support large numbers of users.
Apsara Stack employs a multi-layered security architecture and uses disaster recovery mechanisms developed in house at Alibaba Cloud to safeguard availability, confidentiality, and integrity of customers’ systems and data.
Apsara Stack offers over 70 cloud products, including storage, DB, network, middleware, big-data, AI, security, selected vertical application, cloud management, etc., which translates to most comprehensive coverage of enterprise cloud computing needs.
Apsara Stack is widely used in the financial sector, including powering Ant Financial. Awarding-winning Apsara Stack financial cloud paves solid foundation to bring inclusive financial service to the world.
Features
Infrastructure
Apsara Stack provides a wide variety of basic virtual resources, such as virtual computing, virtual network, and virtual scheduling. The main products include Elastic Compute Service, Virtual Private Cloud, Server Load Balancer, Container Service, Auto Scaling, and Key Management Service.
Storage products
Apsara Stack provides various storage products for different storage objects. The main products include Object Storage Service (OSS), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Table Store, and Apsara File Storage for HDFS (HDFS).
Internet middleware and applications
Apsara Stack provides middleware services and can host various customer applications. This facilitates the conversion of applications to services and encourages applications to evolve into a microservice architecture.
Database
Apsara Stack provides diversified and interoperable data engines. The main products include ApsaraDB for RDS, KVStore for Redis, KVStore for Memcache, ApsaraDB for MongoDB, ApsaraDB RDS for PostgreSQL, Data Transmission Service (DTS), and Data Management Service.
Big data processing
Apsara Stack provides various functions of big data analysis, application, and visualization to maximize data value. The main products include MaxCompute, DataWorks, Realtime Compute, Quick BI, E-MapReduce, DataQ – Smart Tag Service, Dataphin, and Apsara Bigdata Manager.
Artificial intelligence
Apsara Stack provides a machine learning algorithm platform based on the distributed computing engine developed by Alibaba Cloud, such as Machine Learning Platform for AI (PAI).