Cloud services make it "lightweight"

Over the past 8 years, the Amazon cloud platform has generated many legends, but also let Chinese users witness the "cloud is the fertile ground for innovation."

Although at the end of 2013 only announced settled in China, but the Amazon cloud platform of Chinese users have thousands of, some of which have a certain scale of enterprises, such as Qihoo 360, millet, TCL, Tian Shi, netqin, Derby software and so on.

Chinese users: Cloud service concept affects traditional IT systems

NetQin Business Support Center Yuepengyu recalls that, at first, they had a strong sense of discomfort using the cloud platform, and they felt "how to do it now on Amazon", but that doesn't seem to work.

During this period, they also saw a number of third-party evaluation reports that tested comparisons of some cloud platforms, including CPU performance, memory performance, and disk throughput.

"We were even more devastated after watching it." In retrospect, Yuepengyu said, it was in a transition period--traditional it was an upward-expanding pattern that emphasized stand-alone performance, but the core of cloud services was service, which valued services more than machine performance itself. ”

Yuepengyu Frankly, we are now in the transition from the Entity Server Cloud service, therefore, the evaluation of cloud services is not fully formed. "However, one thing is particularly clear, and we should focus on what services are available from a cloud platform." "Performance is a concern, but service requirements for performance are very loose," says Yuepengyu.

Take the throughput, the user can choose the required ability according to their actual situation, once this level of service can not meet the demand, users can choose to upgrade. Especially now in the internet age, there are many factors of uncertainty, more need this flexible service ability. "You can set some thresholds, above it, the service can be automatically added to the machine, below it, the machine can automatically lose the machine." ”

After more than four or five years of development, the current monthly network of NetQin in the domestic rental IDC costs and overseas use of Amazon cloud services will be more cost. From the size of the IT resources available, Amazon has more platforms. But Yuepengyu found that the use of cloud services in the end to save a lot of money, now is increasingly bad calculation. "Mass mailing service, for us is a multiplier service, it has nothing to do with IT infrastructure, no way to compare." "But Amazon Cloud services have shortened the global software deployment time of NetQin from the original 3-15 days to 45 minutes." NetQin in the original it operation of the personnel did not increase the situation, but also the operation of the overseas IT services.

"Use cloud services, you have to put down the past, in the case of no hurry to say no, think more, try, may be from ' touch the North ' state, gradually found these things actually do very ' handsome '." "Yuepengyu summed up their transformation from traditional it to cloud services," Amazon provides components like building blocks, many engineers often spell this, get that, and inadvertently burst into some new ideas. ”

China Partners: Helping users with Cloud services

In the United States, there are many cloud service providers around the Amazon cloud platform. They provide advisory services to users to help them use Amazon. In China, there are now such cloud service providers to help users use cloud services.

"I had doubts about cloud computing before," he said. "But when we migrate our IT systems to Amazon, we save nearly 70% per cent of it costs each year," said Liu Hongbo, the Xinyi technology director. This gives me a deep experience, it is valuable to the user, but the user's understanding needs a process. ”

Xinyi Technology found that because Amazon provides a lot of components, in the process of migrating from the traditional IT infrastructure to the Amazon cloud platform, it is necessary for the third party to objectively evaluate what components to choose from, and how to purchase them without affecting performance. After migration, there are two development requirements for some applications. Thus, Xinyi technology gradually began to provide users with cloud platform migration architecture design, technical advice and support services, such as deployment and implementation, such as evaluating the architecture and traffic of existing data centers, and using models to calculate the types and quantities of services that Amazon needs, and when migrating, do a lot of customer work, For example, to help users achieve better load balancing design.

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The cloud is a metaphor for the web and the Internet. Cloud services refer to the need and scalability of the services available through the network. This service can be it and software, Internet-related, but also other services. It means that computing power can be used as a commodity to circulate through the Internet.

Cloud services are also an increase, usage, and delivery model for internet-based services, typically via the Internet to provide dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources.