Domestic public cloud "two public small" low price behind is too much trouble

Downtime losses and annual fees almost flat small and medium-sized enterprises tangle with "cost" and "security" balance

We used more than 20 units in the Ali Cloud, half a year, there have been 1 times all the machines all power off, 2 times more than one hard drive suddenly read, 3 hard disk IO Suddenly full (explanation is the same physical machine on the other virtual machines and we rob Resources). 1 times Customer service does not notify direct restart, more than 10 times not responding to the operation, the telephone has never been within five minutes to pass., is ready to move out of all the machines. Goodbye @ Aliyun. "Not long ago, Beijing Crab Technology Co., Ltd. CEO Yeke on Weibo on the aliyun of vomit caused by the industry's public cloud service concern." In order to reduce the cost of the public cloud services, behind the hidden is the "stealth security risk" as the cost of development pains.

Cloud, not as cheap as imagined

followed by the Yeke, has used Aliyun service of the Meng Fruit Game CEO Yin Qing also helpless voice: "We have forty or fifty units, with more than a year, the problems encountered more than you, now turn ucloud." "Yin Qing told reporters that they last year in the cloud on the clouds because the cloud server downtime, resulting in direct losses to hundreds of thousands of yuan, and they are in the cloud of Ali rent the cost of a cloud is only hundreds of thousands of yuan a year. Pocket Game Technician Zheng also told the IT Times reporter that they are currently on the Ali Cloud only rented a server, has been broken down several times for 10-20 minutes, directly caused 50% users off line.

From the day that cloud computing enters people's horizons, "Reducing enterprise costs" has always been the most attractive business for the concept. At present the industry commonly used public cloud and private cloud to point to two kinds of cloud services, in short, the public cloud is on the Internet to all Internet users to provide cloud computing services, Google, Aliyun, Tencent, Amazon and so on are such; private cloud refers to the provision of cloud computing services within an enterprise, resource pools within the enterprise, or by the operator to build, the overall rental to an enterprise.

For domestic SMEs, a very real problem is cost. Compared to the enterprise built private cloud, the public cloud whether in charge or technical difficulty, the threshold is lower. Whether domestic or foreign, the current mode of providing public cloud is mainly two, one is open source platform to develop their own virtualization software, this one is lower cost, the other is to buy commercial software, by the existing commercial software to help solve the problem.

At home, Aliyun, Sheng the two giants go the open source platform model, especially Aliyun all platforms, virtualization software are all their own technicians to rewrite the original Open-source software code to complete their own software, which is the same as the Amazon development model, from the cost point of view, open source platform charges Lower, For small and medium-sized enterprises, entrepreneurial enterprises more attractive. Another model for buying commercial software to build a platform is relatively high-end, which is more common in operators. To telecom IDC, for example, their public cloud services are divided into different levels, in which the custom cloud level for financial securities users is a private cloud and charges are relatively high.

In order to save money, most enterprises choose the public cloud. But to a certain extent, "the public cloud legend in the low price is not so cheap, the damage caused by the loss of virtually has raised the cost." "Yin Qing said.

It is understood that the public cloud downtime for game manufacturers caused by the most obvious loss for some popular games, its day to recharge can reach more than 1 million yuan, once the downtime, the loss is much higher than the cost of the rental public cloud saved. In response to these problems, Aliyun is currently using a uniform standard of compensation-free extension of the use of the cloud, but in fact, as Zheng frankly, they would rather not compensate, but also hope to have more stable service.

Low cost leads to multiple failures

In fact, it's not cheap to have a stable service. An industry insider believes that, whether it is Aliyun, or Amazon's public cloud services, their own open source platform, to reduce costs for the main purpose of the approach, will encounter a variety of failures and instability, "such as the general computer room power, hard disk damage, backup failure, these are possible, the solution is different." Because Aliyun or similar enterprises are mainly from the cost point of view, it will inevitably affect the speed and quality of problem solving. ”

It is understood that the cloud services provided by Sheng is to put the data on the server's local hard drive, there is no backup, in the event of a failure, user losses are difficult to estimate, and backup services need to purchase additional. Last year, Sheng had an accident that resulted in the loss of all user data due to a hard drive loss. In this context, a small strength of the enterprise does not really optimistic about the cheap public cloud. According to Shanghai Telecom Statistics, 2/3 of their users are more willing to accept the private cloud, only 1/3 users accept the public cloud services. But for the enterprise which is still in the initial stage, only the public cloud with low threshold can be chosen.

In this Aliyun, many of the participants are game developers, "The main reason is that game users for the personalized requirements of the cloud is higher, and some game developers to compute performance is higher, some games are storage IO throughput performance requirements, but many game manufacturers themselves do not want to spend a lot of money, Therefore there will be contradictions in the price/performance of the cloud. "said a cloud service provider.

It seems that for the game-like enterprises to do the cloud, the provision of a more appropriate area.

Cloud service quality is uneven

"Besides Aliyun, what choice do you have?" "A technician from the game maker asked the journalist, after a comprehensive consideration of the price services of the public cloud, he found that the range of domestic options was very small."

Looking from the pattern, domestic services to provide cloud computing enterprise-level market, is gradually forming a "two small" market pattern, except Aliyun and Sheng two big giants, whether the scale or quality, vary, including the second half of 2012 to enter the cloud computing market carrier class operators, but also from the IDC service providers, In the marginal industry of data processing such as system collector, small and medium-sized enterprises, of which the smallest enterprise virtual servers can provide outsourced leasing are less than 100, so the quality of service provided by these cloud service providers is also uneven.

One industry personage discloses: Recently also has the trend, is the government subordinate partial park property, also began to build the computer room, joined the Public cloud outsourcing leasing competition. For a long time to come, the quality of public cloud services is in such a "messy" state.

The current situation of cloud service failure leads to another problem: domestic cloud Services lack the breakdown of industry service standards. It is understood that at present only the financial industry is gradually forming a set of cloud services technical specifications, "before Taiwan-funded banks to our Jianyun, the CBRC dedicated to the whole system of technical environment audit." "Shanghai Telecom, a cloud computing experts told reporters, but other industries in this sense has not formed," each industry should have its own standards of access, on this basis to establish a professional service system can avoid more risks and contradictions. At present, the state's policies and regulations are not perfect, thus, public cloud services are difficult to get the real norms. ”

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)